BARISAN NASIONAL will convene a meeting to discuss MCA’s call for the coalition to be dissolved, said its acting chairman, Mohamad Hasan.

He said the leaders of the coalition’s component parties can meet as soon as it was convenient.

“It is really up to the component leaders, and when they are free. I don’t have a problem, but sometimes they are not free,” he told The Malaysian Insight.

Mohamad did not indicate a possible a date for the meeting.

MCA earlier today had called for the dissolution of BN, urging the coalition’s supreme council to hold a meeting soon to discuss its proposal.

Speaking at MCA’s 70th anniversary celebrations today, party president Wee Ka Siong also lashed out at BN secretary-general Mohamed Nazri Aziz, calling him unfit for the post because of his “hurtful” comments against other races while campaigning recently in the Semenyih by-election.

Last December, MCA adopted a resolution to push for the dissolution of BN at its annual general assembly and sent a letter requesting a BN supreme council meeting to discuss the resolution.

“We hope the BN supreme council can call for a meeting soon.

From a peak of 14 component parties, BN is now left with only three of its founding organisations – Umno, MIC and MCA, which were also part of the pre-independence Alliance coalition.

MCA has never recovered from mauling it received in the 2008 election, with only one MP, Wee, after the 14th general election.

BN entered GE14 last May with 13 component parties, but losing federal power saw its affiliates leave, beginning with parties in Sabah and Sarawak, followed by the peninsula-based Gerakan in June.

Nazri told The Malaysian Insight that MCA is welcome to leave, like how other component parties did.

Wee said he hoped the BN leadership would also take the appropriate action against Nazri for his remarks during the Semenyih by-election.

“(This would be) to sack an arrogant person like him, who is no longer qualified as the BN secretary-general.

“BN does not need such an arrogant leader, who does not respect other component parties and other races in our multiracial country.

“Obviously, he was campaigning for Pakatan Harapan and trying to bring down his own party.”

Wee was echoing the call by MCA secretary-general Chew Mei Fun, who earlier this week said leaders like Nazri were the reason BN lost in the 14th general election last year.

Nazri, campaigning last Sunday in Semenyih, criticised PH over the appointment of non-Malays as attorney-general, chief justice and finance minister.

He also said non-Malays should not question Malay privileges, since the former also had privileges, such as vernacular schools.

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