Leave BN if you want, it won’t be dissolved, Nazri Aziz tells MCA

Lee Chi Leong Lee Chi Leong Updated 7 years ago · Published on 28 Feb 2019 7:00AM · 6 Comments

Mohamed Nazri Aziz campaigning in Bandar Sri Putra on Tuesday. The Barisan Nasional secretary-general says the pact is too busy with the spate of by-elections to hold any supreme council meeting. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Nazir Sufari, February 28, 2019.

GO ahead and leave Barisan Nasional, its secretary-general Mohamed Nazri Aziz told MCA which celebrated its 70th anniversary yesterday.

He said the ethnic Chinese component party can do this on its own instead of asking the former ruling coalition to dissolve.

Nazri said he didn’t understand MCA’s resolution, made at its annual general assembly in December, for BN to dissolve as the matter was academic since such a move required Umno’s agreement.

“They can leave. Do what Gerakan did, what PBB (Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu), what component parties in Sabah all did.

“All of them left and there was no problem. So, I’m puzzled with MCA, if they want to leave, just leave then, no one is asking them to stay,” Nazri told The Malaysian Insight.

Umno will not agree with MCA’s request and the matter was not even been raised at the BN supreme council, he said.

“Umno members, in general, disagree with dissolving BN. We still want BN and we have plans for BN in the future.

“It is actually academic, you know, the question about dissolving, because if Umno doesn’t agree, then MCA’s request cannot be implemented. That’s it,” said Nazri, the Padang Rengas MP.

He said the BN supreme council has not been meeting lately as coalition parties are busy campaigning first for the Cameron Highlands by-election in January and now, the Semenyih by-election this Saturday. Another by-election is expected in Rantau, Negri Sembilan, in the next two months.

“I have not received any order from the chairman to hold a BN meeting and without a meeting, we can’t discuss the matter,” Nazri added.

MCA at its AGM on December 2 passed a resolution for BN’s dissolution and for a new coalition to be formed.

Party president Dr Wee Ka Siong sent a letter on December 12 to the BN secretariat requesting a BN supreme council meeting for MCA to submit its resolution.

Such a meeting has yet to take place, as soon after the MCA AGM, Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi went on leave and handed over his duties to deputy president Mohamad Hasan.

A BN supreme council meeting scheduled for January 7 was then postponed indefinitely, with parties busying themselves with the Cameron Highlands by-election on January 26.

BN is now left with three parties – Umno, MIC and MCA – the founding partners of the pre-independence Alliance coalition.

It entered the 14th general election last May with 13 components but the coalition’s loss at the polls and change of federal government saw members leave, beginning with parties in Sabah and Sarawak, followed by the peninsula-based Gerakan last June. – February 28, 2019.

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  • Do you think this cock would be such an arrogant if he doesn't gets the supports from dumno higher ups, they must mapped it out together with PAS they would be able to garner the malay votes.

    Posted 7 years ago by Teruna Kelana · Reply

  • Why is MCA is reluctant to leave? Are they expecting a cut from Bumno's inheritance?

    Posted 7 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • UMNO is behaving like Trump. Lebih baik bina la pagar sekeliling sendiri.

    Posted 7 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • Crying wee wee has no b@lls to leave its master. A dog can't leave its master. It will become a pari@h stray dog roaming on the street aimlessly without the master.

    Posted 7 years ago by Chee yee ng · Reply

  • All it takes is an asshole to embarras the whole Chinese community with such a simple statement such as "get out"...

    Posted 7 years ago by Richard Foo · Reply

  • So, what does wee Wee have to say?

    Posted 7 years ago by Yoon Kok · Reply