This is in response to MCA President Chua Soi Lek's press statement dated Nov 16 where he said that he would abstain from responding to DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng's demand for MCA to apologise unless Lim replied to his questions on hudud law.

In the same statement Chua claimed that he was not against overseas Malaysians voting.

I would like to remind the MCA president that the main issue is the Malaysian citizen's constitutional right to vote (CCRTV). Chua should be defending CCRTV instead of just "not opposing".

Chua is reluctant to implement CCRTV as a leader and he is evasive by using lame excuses such as it creates a logistical nightmare and the voters are"out of touch" (which he later denied).

Lame because how can one use logistics to deny a constitutional right?

Further, he tried to sidestep the issue by referring to their only ammunition (hudud law) which is being used ad nauseam .

To set the record straight, Lim did respond to the hudud issue.

Chua tried to brush off Lim's challenge for him to apologise for the overseas voting issue.

Who is Chua to brush off Lim's challenge? Chua is only a political dwarf compared to Lim who is a political giant. Why? Because Chua has no courage to defend CCRTV like Lim.

Chua's only courage was to own up to a sex video (CCTV) which made him well known to all Malaysians, Asians and the whole world.

He was even rewarded by the MCA's delegates to be the President, immediately after that ! Speaks volumes of the quality of delegates that MCA has by electing a porn star to represent Malaysia.

Whereas Lim's courage is quite different. He was incarcerated for defending an underaged girl whom he does not know.

He suffered in jail for 18 months and he was also disqualified from standing for public office for a period of five years. He was the David fighting the Goliath in the form of big bullies, BN.

He never gave up. For his courage and sacrifice, he was rewarded by the rakyat to be the chief minister of Penang.

Chua was given a new lease of life and yet he committed the greatest mistake by not defending the rakyat's constitutional right to vote.

Chua has no choice but to state his stand in defending CCRTV. He has to act as a leader. Failing to do so, he will go down in history as a MCA leader who refused to defend CCRTV.

Even worse, in doing so he has denied CCRTV!

NICOLE TAN LEE KOON is the honorary secretary of the Seremban branch of NS DAP.