Quitting BN on MCA Youth meeting agenda today

Lee Chi Leong Lee Chi Leong Updated 7 years ago · Published on 1 Dec 2018 11:39AM · 2 Comments

MCA Youth under its new chief, Nicole Wong, will discuss the possibility of the ethnic Chinese party quitting Barisan Nasional at its annual general assembly today.

Wong said the Chinese community wished for MCA to leave the coalition that had ruled Malaysia for six decades until its first-ever trouncing in the 14th general election in May.

“It is the common view of the Chinese community and the public that MCA can only be reborn and regain Chinese support if it quits BN, or if BN dissolves.

“Isn’t the public’s view clear enough?” she said at the AGM, in Kuala Lumpur, today.

As quitting is on the agenda, Wong reportedly did not invite BN Youth leaders to the AGM as was the customary practice.

In her speech, Wong said MCA Youth would be setting up a social movement bureau to facilitate street protests.

She said it was time for MCA to “transform” from a “rightist” to “centre” party, and this meant being ready to “go to the streets”

“Having been in the administration, we have turned into a party that only knows how to organise activities. We have lost the ability to organise social movement and to set the discourse.”

The social movement bureau will work with “friendly activists”, she said, and join in street marches.

Wong, a 38-year-old mother of three, was last month elected as the first female MCA Youth chairman in the party’s 63-year history.

MCA saw its worst electoral performance in GE14, winning only one parliamentary seat out of the 39 it contested, and two state seats out of 90.

The new leadership under Ayer Hitam MP Wee Ka Siong has not committed to taking the party out of BN and has said it was a matter for the AGM to decide. – December 1, 2018. 

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  • Far far too late. Quiting rom BN will not washed the stigma or stench that MCA was only a lackey and almost a nobody at all. All their voices are drowned by the fear of big brother Umno beating up on them. This can never be washed away from "Malaysia political history analect". It has deeply ingrained in every Chinese race of the disgraced and self serving politicians from MCA. Party as it self being indifferent to all wrong doings with the deafening silence and meekly accepting the big bulling from Umno to classify the nons as second class with their imposing views of Ketuanan and their vociferous reminder of the word "pendatang" are not even met with a slight challenge from MCA except for some informal voices in soft and yet with the restraint in the guise of BN fellowship. A total shame where a party is without voice and standing but still keen to be seen as the race champion. "Just a fast gun and no bullets". My friendly advise would be to dispose off all the assets and disbanded off the party as no one Chinese in any sanity of mind would like to be associates with MCA save for those who in all fool hardiness of act and mind still think that MCA represent Chinese.

    Posted 7 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • Single race party cannot survive in Malaysia context. Very very impossible to survive because you either end up narrow minded or very extreme in your ideology. This is not acceptable to the majority of people.

    Posted 7 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply