True to speculations, MCA vice-president Liow Tiong Lai's faction announced the cancellation of the EGM scheduled for Nov 28, purportedly to pave way for fresh elections.

According to Malaysiakini reports, there were smiling faces all round, in stark contrast to the weeping drama on Nov 18.

There were no pro-Chua or pro-Ong leaders present at the press conference, giving rise to the belief that it is just a face-saving mechanism carefully crafted by the pro-Liow faction to avoid the EGM from being aborted due to insufficient quorum.

Word has it that central delegates were generally bored and exhausted after the last episode on Oct 10 EGM. Further more, the Nov 28 EGM resolution has been ruled illegal by the CC committee on Nov 18.

Hitherto, where to proceed from here? Even though all major Chinese press carried Liow's announcement by default and published similar reports that fresh elections will be held Jan 2010, the basic uncertainty still lingers on.

The Chinese newspaper has overstepped their own boundaries with Chinese guilds and associations taking sides to push for fresh elections.

William Cheng, president of the Association Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM), was reported accusing Ong Tee Keat of doing nothing for the Chinese community ever since he was elected into office.

William's outburst has angered alot of the MCA grassroots. His remarks signal the breaking down of "mutual respect and separation" between politics and social and commercial affairs among political parties and guilds and associations.

ACCCIM's members are superficially seen as powerful representatives of the Chinese business community, but are ill-qualified. These people fail to realise that being rich and wealthy does not mean that you are a competent leader.

As more Chinese intellectuals fade away from guilds and associations, Chinese community leadership is going nowhere.

The cancellation of the Nov 28 EGM works contrary to the interests of Liow's faction. Had they wanted more bargaining chips, they should have proceeded with the EGM, passed the resolutions and submitted them to the CC for implementation.

The EGM should only be called off if there is a written agreement by all CC members to quit en-bloc. However, it is clear that there is no such understanding between the three factions.

Having fresh elections is not a workable formula as nobody will be willingly vacate their seats. The crisis is heading to another impasse just like the "Great Unity Plan" engineered by Ong Tee Keat and Chua Soi Lek earlier on.

Liow's faction has refused to abide by the GUP even though Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak endorses it.

Now it is Ong and Chua's turn to defeat Liow's proposal.

Nobody is talking about the GUP right now and soon no one will mention fresh elections either.

The MCA crisis is set to continue, all because members have proposed an unworkable formula to blackmail the party.

Watch out for more pulsating dramatics and intrigues. By all indications it will not end so soon. It will only come to an end if all parties agree on another truly workable formula.