The fish rots from the head, so they say. There can be no truer expression when it comes to the utter chaos engulfing the MCA today.

It is currently headed by a leader so completely lost in his thirst for power that he gives short shrift to the fact that the majority of party members have no confidence in him and want him out.

He has conveniently ignored the fact that it was he who promised to step down as president of the party should he lose the confidence vote. He lost but he remains in power.

This makes him a liar and liars do not deserve any leadership positions. There are those that say that a motion of no-confidence being passed does not mandate the removal of the president because the party’s constitution requires a two-thirds majority for this.

Therefore, the motion of no-confidence simply means that the president may continue being president but that he needs to govern differently.

Let us not get into absurd arguments such as the above. A motion of no-confidence means just that - you get hit by one, you step down. And the choice is yours if you want to get back in again through fresh elections.

Then we have the so-called current deputy president who committed adultery, admitted to it and then has the further gall to say that all is now well because he has ‘served his time out’ from the party.

The cold hard facts are these: He cheated on his wife. He violated the sanctity of marriage which most Malaysians still hold dear to unlike in the Western countries where marriage is nothing but a piece of paper.

Cheaters and violators of institutions that go back time immemorial do not deserve any leadership positions.

The saddest fact about this whole fiasco is this - the only way for the MCA to resolve its multitude of problems is to clear the decks through fresh elections. Unfortunately, those in power are trying to do everything within their capability to prevent this from happening.

The members are the supreme power of any democratic organisation. If there is a dispute that so clearly cannot be solved without unholy compromises, then the membership must be consulted to resolve matters once and for all.