Former MCA vice-president Ti Lian Ker has slammed party president Wee Ka Siong for focusing more on DAP in his policy speech at the MCA annual general assembly today.
In a statement, Ti (above, left) said the party meeting should be about discussing MCA's survival and its leadership optics rather than listing their rival's failures.
According to him, Wee (above, right) had missed a critical opportunity to reset MCA's political direction at a time when it is facing "near-existential decline".
"Instead of spending precious AGM airtime attacking DAP with the familiar 'Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) and Chinese schools' script, Dr Wee missed a critical opportunity to reset MCA’s political direction at a moment of near-existential decline.
"He should have left the oft repeated criticism of DAP to the people, the grassroots, the commentators and social media influencers.
"These issues are food for them, not the MCA president where crucial, punctual and sharp political statements should spur a heated debate and capture political headlines in the media.
"But Wee is a safe player, a political player astute at reaping low-lying fruits and often used to his comfort zone," Ti said in the statement uploaded on his Facebook page.
He was referring to Wee's presidential address this morning, where the MCA president delivered a fiery speech warning BN against continuing its cooperation with Pakatan Harapan and DAP.
The Ayer Hitam MP also made scathing remarks against DAP in his speech, where he refuted notions that suggested the Harapan component as MCA 2.0 and compared MCA’s contributions to the Chinese community with DAP's.
MCA’s existential crisis
Adding further, Ti said Wee had avoided discussing "the hard truth" about MCA, which is its existential crisis.
The MCA president, he said, should have acknowledged that it is losing support because the party was no longer seen as inspiring confidence, relevance or urgency.
"We are still with zero seats in Sabah and have a marginal presence in Peninsular Malaysia, and our youth absence is thunderous.
"Urban Chinese voters are still decisively not MCA’s.
"(But) instead of confronting why MCA is shrinking structurally and providing the way forward with stimulating products and directions, the speech retreated into the comfort of blaming DAP, reheating UEC grievances, and replaying 1990s political narratives where we have already lost.
"This avoids the real disease of the party and treats only the political symptoms," Ti said. - Mkini
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