Chairman of MCA Bandar Tun Razak Division
Kuala Lumpur, 19th—In response to MCA President Dato’ Seri Liow Tiong Lai who after chairing the MCA Central Committee Meeting has laid out his analysis of MCA’s disastrous defeat in the 14th general election after the Central Committee Meeting, I do not agree with his review.
Liow Tiong Lai has attributed the defeat to the three cornered fights where PAS was there to split votes, MCA’s strong opposition to The Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) (Amendment) Bill 2016 (Act 355) that caused it losing the Malay votes, and the opposition’s billboards that say ‘voting BN equals to voting for Najib and wife’. MCA Bandar Tun Razak chief, Datuk Chew Yin Keen thinks otherwise as well as other factors.
Datuk Chew says that MCA Central Committee should examine the main reason for the disastrous defeat of MCA honestly and neutrally for the betterment of MCA.
In fact, it is well known fact that the main reason for the defeat and the loss of federal power by Barisan Nasional in the general election is the scandals surrounding the outgoing Prime Minister Najib and his family members, especially the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion political donation. The scandals had BN failed to answer the opposition’s waves of criticism.
The people, irrespective of race and religion, deem that BN Government continuously abuses of power and position to the maximum benefit of their comrades was also a factor. For example, the case of Datuk Rizalman’s drug abuses case, his urine tested from positive to negative and later a reverse test result. No one believe the PDRM. This case has caused the people total lost faith in the BN Government. The people rebel and demand change of government, said Datuk Chew.
Datuk Chew Yin Keen says that “in addition, the inflation caused by the GST over the period of the BN government has added to the burden of the people and caused the voters to make the choice of changing the government, which caused BN to lose its ruling power.” This factor caused the traditional Malay supporters of BN rebel and voted the opposition.
There is another reason why Chinese voted against MCA, according to Datuk Chew Yin Keen, is that MCA has failed to play the role of protector of the Chinese community in BN. The image of MCA imprinted on the minds of the Chinese community is that of a yes man of UMNO. Instead of standing up to UMNO, it had chosen to compromise in dealing with every crisis. This has seriously hurt the dignity of the Malaysians Chinese.
The classic example of UMNO snatches the Bandar Tun Razak Parliament seat from MCA, despite that MCA Division worked tirelessly in the constituency. To add salt to the wound, UMNO nominated nominated someone who has not appeared in the constituency since 2013. What a joke?
Therefore, the Chinese voters do not trust MCA can fight or protect their rights, as they themselves unable to preserve the Bandar Tun Razak Parliament seat.
Another factor that caused the defeat of BN was the re-delineation of election boundary that the people especially young voters deem the BN Government cheating the people’s rights as well as unjust and unfair to the opposition, said Datuk Chew. This caused the uprising of young voters and educated voters to rebel against BN.
Datuk Chew has also stated that if MCA still choose to ignore the real causes of the disastrous defeat and instead blame it on others, MCA will never be able to stand up again. Laying the blame on MCA’s strong position to the Act 355 and three-cornered fights is absurd as they are not the main reasons for the defeat of MCA.
MCA needs to accept the real causes of defeat and re-think, strategize and move on to build a honest, sincere and trustworthy party. With that, the people will support the Party, said Datuk Chew.
Datuk Chew Yin Keen is in no way intend to accuse the Party’s Central Committee of anything. He is only hoping that MCA could examine the real cause and stand up again in the aftermath of the defeat so that MCA can continue to serve the people especially Chinese community and achieve a better result in the next general election. Otherwise, MCA will be varnished and become history.
