KUALA LUMPUR: The top leadership of MCA and MIC will be meeting in three days’ time to discuss the way forward for Barisan Nasional.
MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong said the party, MIC and Umno would then later meet to decide on the fate of the coalition, which they had founded together and through which they gained the country’s independence in 1957.
MCA had earlier requested for a Barisan supreme council meeting to be called over the coalition’s fate.
“We hope that the Barisan supreme council can call for a meeting soon.
“No matter what the outcome is, we believe the coalition was founded by the three component parties and its future should be decided by them.
“We are to seek a consensus agreed by all three component parties and work together in deciding the way forward for all of us,” Dr Wee said when opening the MCA 70th anniversary celebration here yesterday.
No date had yet been set for the meeting, he added.
On Dec 2, delegates at the MCA annual general assembly had passed a resolution to push for Barisan’s dissolution and to forge a new alliance.
On Dec 12, the MCA central committee had requested for a Barisan supreme council meeting to be held as soon as possible for MCA to raise the resolution.
Umno, MCA and MIC formed the Alliance before this was changed to Barisan Nasional and included other parties in 1974.
Barisan, which went into the general election last year as a 13-component party coalition, is now down to only the three founding parties.
Barisan, said Dr Wee, should also sack its secretary-general Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz over his alleged racist remarks during the Semenyih by-election campaign last week.
A video of Umno’s Padang Rengas MP touching on the topic of closing down vernacular schools has gone viral.
However, Nazri, who is being probed by the police for sedition, had denied he was being racist.
Dr Wee said while Section 21(2) of the Education Act 1961 which empowered the Education Minister to convert vernacular schools to national schools was repealed in 1996, Nazri’s remarks had brought harm to the Chinese and Indian community.
“Obviously, he (Nazri) was campaigning for Pakatan Harapan and trying to bring down his own party,” Dr Wee said.
Nazri, he added, was no longer qualified as the Barisan secretary-general, adding that the coalition did not need such an arrogant leader who has no respect for other component parties and races.
Date to be determined on dissolution of BN: MCA
KUALA LUMPUR: MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong said a date has yet to be determined for the dissolution of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
“We are waiting for a date and I am sure a meeting will be called soon,“ he told a press conference after attending the party’s MCA’s 70th anniversary celebration, here today.
”We shall be talking about the way forward for the two parties,” he added, when asked on when top MCA and MIC leaders were expected to meet.
The Ayer Itam MP had earlier said that both sides will discuss the future between the two parties in the next three days, following MCA’s decision to move forward with a dissolution of the coalition.
He laughed when asked to comment about a viral message from the day before which stated that: Tomorow MCA president will announce, MCA will separate from BN, but not amounting to a divorce.
“Where did the message come from? I have not seen it,“ he said when the text was shown to him by members of the media.
“I had only returned from China yesterday and drafted my speech until 1am. So, how could anyone have known what I will be writing about?” he said. – THE SUN DAILY
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