We’re loyal to BN, MCA tells Gerakan
MCA Youth leader Neow Choo Seong says the party has remained loyal to Barisan Nasional despite performing poorly in the previous general election.
PETALING JAYA: An MCA Youth leader says the party will remain loyal to Barisan Nasional (BN), rejecting a suggestion for it to join forces with Gerakan once again.
MCA Youth information chief Neow Choo Seong also told Gerakan president Dominic Lau to stop sowing discord among BN’s component parties.
“Gerakan was once part of BN and I’m sure they remember how they were made a component party of the coalition in 1973.
“So Gerakan should be more understanding and respect the spirit of consensus within BN. Don’t try to come between BN’s component members,” he told FMT.
On Wednesday, Lau said his party was ready to forge ties with MCA once more should its former ally decide to quit BN.
He said Gerakan was open to anyone who wished to work with Perikatan Nasional (PN), including MCA if it could accept the coalition’s ideology.
Gerakan, a founding member of BN, left the coalition shortly after the 14th general election in 2018 which saw Pakatan Harapan (PH) taking over Putrajaya. The party joined PN in 2021.
Lau was responding to MCA president Wee Ka Siong saying that Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s call for the unity government to be “defended” at the next general election was merely the latter’s personal view.
Wee said no decision had been made at the BN level as the coalition’s components had yet to discuss the matter.
Bersatu information chief Razali Idris meanwhile said that Gerakan and MCA would be able to wrest the non-Malay seats from DAP, especially in Chinese-majority areas, if the two parties were part of the same team.
Neow said MCA’s continuous support for BN despite performing poorly in the previous general election demonstrated the party’s loyalty and its desire to work together to restore and strengthen the coalition.
“I just want to ask (Lau), what is PN’s ideology? Does Gerakan really share the same ideology?
“What if one day, DAP decides to join PN for political reasons? Will Gerakan also accept DAP?” he said.