Ong Ka Chuan opts out of GE14

Lim Ai Sun Updated 6 years ago · Published on 12 Jan 2018 9:26AM · 3 Comments

Tanjong Malim MP Ong Ka Chuan will likely be replaced by Perak MCA chairman and Chenderiang assemblyman Dr Mah Hang Soon. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, January 12, 2018.

MCA secretary-general and Tanjong Malim MP Ong Ka Chuan will not contest in the 14th general election.

Perak MCA chairman and Chenderiang assemblyman Dr Mah Hang Soon is likely to replace Ong as the party’s choice for the seat.

“He has informed the president to allow a new candidate to stand. Unless the party still wants him to serve, he is ready to make way,” a source told The Malaysian Insight.

Ong, who is the second minister for international trade and industry, retained Tanjong Malim with a slightly smaller majority of 4,328 votes in 2013. 

The seat has 64,499 registered voters, comprising 53% Malay, 27% Chinese and 14% Indian.

MCA won only seven out of the 37 parliamentary seats and 11 out of 90 state seats it contested in 2013.

In the 2008 polls, Ong won Tanjong Malim by 5,422 votes.

Ong, 64, was Chenderiang assemblyman from 1986 to 2004.

His only electoral defeat was in 2004, when he lost to DAP’s Fong Poh Kuan in Batu Gajah.

Ong was appointed housing and local government minister in 2008 after winning Tanjong Malim.

He was dropped from the cabinet the next year. Ong vied for the MCA deputy presidency that year but lost to Chua Soi Lek and was removed as the party’s secretary-general. – January 12, 2018.

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  • Opt out better than being kick out

    Posted 6 years ago by Leslie Chan · Reply

  • Opt out better than being kick out

    Posted 6 years ago by Leslie Chan · Reply

  • Opt out better than being kick out

    Posted 6 years ago by Leslie Chan · Reply