I have greatest sympathy and even pity for the MCA President, Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek, who had to declare today that he will not be contesting in the 13th general election, thus becoming the first MCA President not to be fielded.
It is so embarrassing and humiliating an event that Chua had to come out with a statement which will make history as utterly without credibility, claiming that he is opting out of contesting in the 13GE because he is “walking the talk in allowing new and young leaders in the rejuvenation process so that the party will continue to remain relevant”.
In actual fact, having a MCA President who is not allowed to contest in the 13GE by the Barisan Nasional (BN) Chairman and UMNO President, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, is in fact the latest and most powerful evidence of the utter irrelevance of MCA not only in the new Malaysian political landscape but in post-2008 Barisan Nasional politics.
Chua possesses a special illogic when he claimed that his not contesting in the 13GE is to allow him “to prove a point that I am fighting for a cause, that MCA remains relevant”, when the “point” all Malaysians see from the episode is a MCA President who is so irrelevant , unqualified and unsuitable that the UMNO President does not allow him to stand as a BN candidate in the 13GE, as he will not only become a liability for MCA candidates but also to all UMNO and BN candidates as well!
Najib is clearly fearful that Chua’s candidature on the BN ticket will ensure the realisation of the most famous RAHMAN political prophecy with him as the last UMNO/BN Prime Minister
Chua’s claiming that his not contesting as a candidate in the 13GE is “to prove a point that he is fighting for a cause” makes as much sense as his earlier criticism that I am a “political fugitive” for leaving a comparatively safer constituency of Ipoh Timor where I had won with a majority of over 21,000 votes to a high-risk constituency of Gelang Patah which was won by the BN candidate with a 9,000-vote majority in 2008 and a humongous 31,666-vote majority in 2004.
Najib has done a great injustice in not allowing MCA President Chua Soi Lek to stand as a Barisan Nasional candidate in the 13GE.
It is no business of UMNO to dictate who should be the MCA candidate, let alone vetoing the MCA President from contesting in the 13GE.
Will MCA ever thought of imposing a veto on any UMNO candidate, when MCA leaders dare not utter a squeak of protest when Tun Mahathir praised Perkasa’s Ibrahim sky-high as a saviour for Malaysia?
If Chua is not fit to be a BN candidate in the 13GE, how can he be fit and qualified to be the MCA President, sitting in the highest decision-making councils of the Barisan Nasional and government?
If no one in the MCA national leadership dare to speak up against the injustice which Najib has done to Chua and the office of MCA President, let me speak up on Chua and MCA’s behalf – as Najib has no right to stop Chua as a BN candidate in the 13GE when he accepts Chua as an “equal” in the UMNO Supreme Council and even as a member of the BN government’s highest economic planning council in the country.
Who would have imagined that Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir or Tun Abdullah ever (or even daring to) veto the prerogative of their contemporaries as MCA Presidents like Tun Tan Siew Sin, Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu, Tan Sri Lee San Choon, Tan Koon Swan, Tun Dr. Ling Liong Sik or Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting as a Barisan Nasional candidate when they were MCA Presidents?
MCA President soiled and not contesting.
Wanita UMNO soiled and not contesting.
Actually UMNO President and Deputy President and the rank and files of BN are also soiled and should not be contesting too.
That leaves the field open only to Pakatan Rakyat.
Ahem…. Nice, man.
It only proves that BN should be relegated to the role of opposition in the next government!
BN leaders have belittled the opposition so much and abused government machinery, it is time that Malaysians ask them to do the opposition duties……only then will it become a more balanced political force.
What a joke that the president of MCA is not contesting GE13? Must be Najib telling him that he’s not a winnable candidate due to his acting career. Might as well resign from MCA or better still pull out of BN.
How can an unwinnable candidate still be the president of his party? Where’s the logic.
Members of the mca are to be blamed for this disgraceful chapter of the mca history. They elected csl as their president.
Kuantan and 2 state seats ‘on loan’ to UMNO.. Yah right..
Seriously, is there any point at all for MCA, Gerakan, MIC to continue? The current outcome has been predicted DECADES AGO..Lim Keng Yaik said it best last – over 30 years run, what more can one ask? The earliest critics actually thought it was going to be sooner..
How is it possible, given our own known Chinese history of these things, there are so many that hang on to the very last giving up all pride and self-dignity for the little easier scrap material comfort that remain. How can there be so many that pride and self-dignity means so little?
chengho must be crying, eh?
Soilek’s an unwinnable candidate? But he’s qualified to be leader of the chinese community. I bery cuntfused lah.
Hoi chengho, quick gimme some NY underground longkang gas. I wanna inhale lah.
Adulterer n 4nicator pornoSnake is in his favorite location/position, di bawah sarong Najis, licking
No contest OK 1, as long as UmnoB don’t interfere with his pathological adultery n 4nicating activities behind his wife’s back
Desperate times call for desperate measures as the end justifies the means. Very sad indeed.
Chua Soiled Leg is trying to save face after losing his leek.
Now MCA has completely lost face, lost credibility, lost the plot and lost all their marbles.
This GE will have many firsts and many lasts. Hopefully someone will record this later. It will all be more meaningful if new historic results are achieved by the brave new Malaysians, setting out to chart a new course for the the reborn nation. Hope this reality will set in soon.
If Najib allows Ong Tee Keat to contest under the BN ticket after dropping CSL, CSL will have nowhere to hide his face!
In fact, Mamak nominated that Ali frog as a candidate!!!
And here we have the head honcho of the second biggest partner of the BN coalition being treated like an appendage of UMNO!!!
Shouldn’t he have an even greater claim to candidacy?
If it comes to that?
A real irony. Usually a President of a parties is at the forefront that leads the party “AND” for the country. Meaning of country is where he/she has the support of the people not only within the party but from the country.
That is the failure of MCA at this point. A leader for the party but not one of the leader of the country that people can command respect. So, how does he except to influence the people when he is not seen to lead on his own accord of championing the people by winning and not by default?
Uncle lim, this is what a MP must do. Speak for those who are too weak to speak. Standing up for those too weak to stand.
Soi Lek’s face is full of saliva, najib spit on fit, mca members, public’s, agela yam’s, even he himself spit on his face… dirty fella.
MCA as a whole should stay out of the election as they were the ones who elected Chua as president knowing full well of his sex scandal. A man who lacks integrity, morality and judgement cannot lead a party and the delegates who elected him, also lacks integrity, morality and judgement as they see him fit to be a president. Birds of the same feather flocks together!
I don’t know why Soi Lek is not ‘unwinnable’. He only licked and did other things a normal jantan man would do.
As far as I know, he didn’t lose a lot of money like Nor Mohd Yakcop and has no big-time corruption scandal against his name unlike the big-time thief, Pek Moh and Musa Aman.
So what is his problem with Najib?
Maybe Jibby 12 try some man stuff, telling chengho he is not funny.
Sorry, should be ‘winnable’ (above).
He does have a lot of very silent admirers, people who envy him. He’s a great guy in some ways.
So brother Nazir TR is standing in Bandar Tun Razak. Will he pull through ?
UMNO members will not be happy if Najib fields CSL in a Malay majority area. The Chinese will not support himif he contests in a Chinese majority area. CSL is not a winable candidate. Najib is in a dilemma.
UMNO members will not be happy if Najib fields CSL in a Malay majority area. The Chinese will not support himif he contests in a Chinese majority area. CSL is not a winable candidate. Najib is in a dilemma.
PRESIDENT OF MALAYSIAN CHINESE ASSOSIATION DROPPED FROM CANDIDATES LIST. NONE OF MCA LEADERS DARE TO SPEAK-UP. IT IS PATHETIC THAT LKS HAS TO DO IT FOR THEM !!! TIME FOR MCA TO CLOSE SHOP.
MCA for young people, grooming next leadership . anybody above 60 and twice already MP shouldn’t contest again .
Above 70 like Rais & Kit and Karpal should give chance to young leader
Methinks this has something to do with OTK which UMNO insisted for the Pandan seat. By not contesting he may get to keep his Presidency. Didn’t he say he will resign?
How can Sok Lei say that he wants to contest? He has a choice and the only choice is to contest Lim Kit Siang. He could only refuse the opportunity. To save his face, he said he wants to give way to other people (in his party) or to UMNO. Not sure where is the honesty of BN politicians.
Simple political calculation. Asset minus Liability. If negative equity, doesn’t make sense to field him. This is the true reflection of the sorry state of MCA and SL in particular. MCA has been selling out the rights of the Chinese all these years. U reap what u sow. ABU ABU…..
THER’E A SEAT HERE!