YOURSAY | ’It shows gradual evolution towards a more mature coalition system.’
MCA Youth sec-gen told to 'stay out of N Sembilan polls' over PN ally disagreement
Wee: BN-PN pact in N Sembilan not a merger, MCA principles intact
Exile: MCA president Wee Ka Siong’s explanation for cooperation with PAS through the understanding between BN and Perikatan Nasional highlights the dilemma confronting Malaysian politics today.
What appears to be an awkward and uninvited collaboration is, in many ways, part of the country's gradual evolution towards a more mature coalition system.
Like the wheel, which passed through many stages before reaching its present form, coalition politics in Malaysia is still evolving.
The distinction between a coalition government and coalition politics is crucial.
A coalition government is often the outcome of an election in which no single party commands a parliamentary majority.
Coalition politics, however, is the process by which parties negotiate, compromise and govern together despite ideological differences.
Many democracies operating under proportional representation allow parties to contest elections independently, preserving their principles and policy identities.
Only after the election do they negotiate governing arrangements based on the electorate's verdict.
This enables parties to campaign without diluting their core values, while accepting that governing requires consensus and compromise.
Rather than defending ad hoc political accommodations, the MCA could advocate electoral reform by placing proportional representation on its manifesto.
Such a commitment would provide a clearer and more principled framework for coalition-building, replacing expedient alliances with a transparent system that better reflects the diversity of voters' choices.
A Little Bit Crazy: MCA Youth wing secretary-general Saw Yee Fung should relax.
MCA secretary-general Chong Sin Woon was trying to save you from being humiliated by Negeri Sembilan PAS supporters.
He told you not to go. So, you stay home and eat popcorn lah.
Not the first time and will not be the last time BN collaborates with PAS. DAP will certainly collaborate with PAS too in the future, believe me.
Politicians are "businesspersons". They sell their products or souls to any customers who are willing to pay for them.
They collaborate with any other humans/monkeys/donkeys, so that they can hit higher sales targets.
No hard feelings, just plain buy-and-sell business.
So, Saw, if you want to stay in Malaysian politics and survive longer and prosper, then first things first, throw away the so-called principles /dignity/moral values/ethics, but do the opposite.
See humans speak human language. See ghosts speak ghost language.
Play around with words, like collaboration is different from merging.
And never say never; just say, at this moment in time, I don't know about this and that; I do not know this arrangement
I cannot predict the future; everything is possible.
Flow along with the river waters; if not, you will hit the river rocks.
In short, if you want to be a very "successful" politician in Malaysia, like former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, you need to be extremely flexible, and lie and lie and lie, nothing but lie, until you climb up to the top, and lie even more.
I can't do the above, and so I decide to abstain from voting, because I believe BN, PN and Pakatan Harapan are all practising the same doctrine.
GP2025: What Saw says is very true. But why are MCA and MIC keeping quiet? Unless they have a basis to believe that without the non-Malay votes, BN won’t win.
So, to keep BN out of the state government, the urbanites should not vote for BN.
In the Malay-majority areas, it will be interesting to see if the voters are reading the disunity in PN correctly and decide which party to support. BN’s core support remains. It’s the swing votes which will determine if it wins.
That’s hard to tell. The likelihood is that BN has a good chance. To prevent that, the voters will have to vote against it.
The elections will show what the people’s preferences are - if the candidates can convince the voters that the people’s mandate will never be overridden.
In this respect, Parti Wawasan Negara is the best bet.
EmEmKay: Ironically, the very behaviour MCA/BN used to condemn DAP for is exactly what they’re doing now.
When it’s the opponent, they shout about principles and “standing up” to allies; when it’s their own member speaking out, suddenly the instruction is to keep quiet and “stay out” of it.
This just shows they only criticise when it’s convenient or politically painful for them, but clamp down on their own people the moment that same standard is applied internally.
BlueCougar1744: Wee, what principle is this? Oil and water do not mix!
The very fact that PAS ideology is never suitable for a secular Malaysia, you chose to allow Umno to lead BN to work with PN/PAS.
MCA is falling into the same situation as DAP, which allowed Harapan to work with BN to form the Madani government.
Both MCA and DAP need to wake up.
You cannot have your cake and eat it. To us non-Malay voters, Umno and PAS are undesirable and yet look at how non-Malays look at both of you.
Race and religion-based parties are no longer relevant as we are now in 2026! If you cannot innovate, you will get rejected as the world is moving at a pace one can never fathom.
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