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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Don't push us, Gerakan Youth tells BN leaders

The call for Malacca Gerakan polls candidates to contest under their own party flag gains strength as its national youth central working committee voices his support for Gerakan secretary-general Teng Chang Yeow's proposal to that effect.

penang gerakan egm 101010 teng chang yeowIn a statement issued today, Gerakan Youth's vice-chief David Ang said all Malacca Gerakan members should support Teng's (right) call to contest under the party's own flag in the upcoming elections.

It's not only in the Gerakan Bachang division but “all other areas” in Malacca that the party feels its candidates have a chance at winning should see Gerakan candidates running under the Gerakan flag, said Ang.

Telling BN leaders not to “push Gerakan to the edge”, Ang said the party “will fight back with dignity”.

“We will not be a punching bag of Umno and we will no longer keep quiet when you shout. Gerakan is now 43 years old and we are old enough and experienced enough to decide our own destiny and direction that we do not need Umno or any other party to tell us where we should contest.

“We will decide where we should contest and we will let them know when (the) time is right,” said Ang in his tersely-worded statement.

Ang was responding to remarks by Umno supreme council member Mohd Ali Rustam that the state BN would field a "winnable candidate" from either Umno or MCA - instead of Gerakan - for the Bachang state constituency in the next general election.

ali rustamGerakan has been contesting the seat from 1995, but its candidate Wendy Ngo Kim Hwa lost to DAP's Lim Jak Wong in the March 2008 election.

“At this point of time, we have a strong feeling that the winnable candidate would come either from Umno or MCA, and not Gerakan, which has been contesting the seat from 1995.

"We need a candidate who is able to secure the votes and win in Bachang. This would not only make work easier for us, but a victory is also assured," Ali was quoted as saying.

Ali added that if Gerakan had no winnable candidate in Bachang, then it would be better for Umno to contest in its place.

“If I am given an option, my first choice is that the candidate comes from Umno, followed by MCA and maybe then, Gerakan.”

Teng, in an open letter to party members in Malacca, had urged them to be "mentally prepared" to contest the Bachang seat under the party's symbol.

"I want Gerakan Malacca to be mentally prepared to contest the Bachang seat on our own party symbol, if the state BN chairman defies the coalition spirit," he was reported by New Straits Times as saying in the Sept 3 letter.

In his statement today, Ang said he will even propose to the party's main central committee and president Koh Tsu Koon as to where Gerakan Youth feels its candidates have a good chance of winning in the coming general elections.

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