MCA to decide on its position in BN tomorrow, says Mah
MCA AGM | MCA will decide at its annual general assembly tomorrow whether the party will quit BN or push for its dissolution, MCA deputy president Dr Mah Hang Soon said today.
"While the Chinese community opines that we should leave BN, it is undeniable that MCA, as a founding partner of BN, has forged a 'sink or swim' together relationship with Umno and MIC since Independence.
"At a time when BN is at its lowest point after an unprecedented heavy defeat, questions remain whether we should just walk away, or invoke our position as a founder to request for the dissolution of BN," he said when officiating MCA Youth's annual general assembly today...
MCA AGM | MCA will decide at its annual general assembly tomorrow whether the party will quit BN or push for its dissolution, MCA deputy president Dr Mah Hang Soon said today.
"While the Chinese community opines that we should leave BN, it is undeniable that MCA, as a founding partner of BN, has forged a 'sink or swim' together relationship with Umno and MIC since Independence.
"At a time when BN is at its lowest point after an unprecedented heavy defeat, questions remain whether we should just walk away, or invoke our position as a founder to request for the dissolution of BN," he said when officiating MCA Youth's annual general assembly today.
This is the choice MCA and its members will have to make for the future, he added.
Following the decision, he said, BN component parties will be free to re-establish themselves for self-survival and cooperate with other parties with a similar vision to form a new alliance.
BN, once a coalition of 13 parties, has not been whittled down to founding members Umno, MCA and the MIC, after the other component parties quit the coalition following the 14th general election.
Following calls for the Chinese-based party to leave BN for good, MCA will allow its members to make the final decision at the party's AGM tomorrow.
Meanwhile, MCA Youth did not put up a resolution to urge the party to quit BN at the wing's AGM held today.
"We did not touch on this in our resolution, but (I mentioned) it in my speech," said new minted MCA Youth chief Nicole Wong, adding that it was a decision was for MCA's main body to make, she said.
No BN logos were spotted at the MCA Youth AGM venue and the coalition's theme song was not sung during the opening.
BN Youth leaders from other parties were also not invited to attend.
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