Will MCA hold fresh elections to pick its national leaders in the nearest future or will the party's top stewards wait for their term to expire in a year to hold the all-important party polls?

The three factions in the party, led by president Ong Tee Keat, deputy president Dr Chua Soi Lek and vice-president Liow Tiong Lai, respectively, while saying that there was a need for fresh elections, disagreed on the date, or rather timing, of the polls.