Motion to censure Liow rejected

The MCA deputy president has been successful to thwart the attempt to censure him in the EGM today

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KUALA LUMPUR: MCA deputy president Liow Tiong Lai is looking at gaining a favourable position ahead of the party polls after he was successful in thwarting the resolution to censure him in the MCA extraordinary general meeting today (EGM).

The motion was rejected with 1190 out of 2199 delegates voted against and 999 voted in favor.

2189 votes were cast and there were 10 spoil votes.

Liow was blamed for failing in duty as the MCA General Election Preparation Committee chairman to carry out necessary preparations that contributed to the party’s massive losses in the May 5 polls.

He has claimed that accusations were planted by his rival, current president Chua Soi Lek to smear his character.

Path clear for Liow

With the victory, the Bentong MP now stands a bright chance to clinch the MCA president’s post in the December party elections; as Chua fails to command party members to vote to his   instructions.

Upon hearing the result, Liow and his supporters  were seen cheering and punching their fists to the air.

Meanwhile, the delegates also threw out the second motion to re-assume ministerial and deputy ministerial posts, but strangely adopted the third and forth motions to re-assume senatorship, state and local government posts.

The second motion was rejected by a whisker, with 1080 delegates voted for and 1090 delegates voted against.

There were a total of 2188 votes cast, of which 18 were spoil votes.

The less than 1% margin forced the speaker to order a recount, thus delaying the announcement of the results by half an hour.

The third motion to allow party members to accept a senators post and a government-linked post was adopted with overwhelming majority.

1666 delegates voted in favour of the motion while only 513 voted against. There were 10 spoil votes.

The delegates also passed the forth motion, that is to accept government posts at state and local levels, with 1709 voted for and 472 voted against it.

In another words, MCA can now re-assume any government post except ministerial.