Chua Jui Meng: MCA tidak mampu berubah

Posted on Wednesday, July 22 @ 21:30:00 PDT by AbuJihad
Oleh: dewa

"Chua Jui Meng, antara nama paling besar dikalangan ahli politik kaum Cina di Malaysia, mengatakan dengan tegas bahawa MCA tidak mampu untuk berubah atau menjadi lebih baik kerana terlalu tunduk dan terikat dengan UMNO yang sangat dominan dalam BN. Tee Kiat turut mengakui bahawa 'faktor luaran (sila baca sebagai UMNO) menekan Chua Jui Meng supaya berhenti selepas mencabar UMNO agar insaf dan berubah dan bukan sekadar perubahan kosmetik. Artikel lengkap disediakan.

Chua: Difficult for MCA to reform itself

Tuesday, 21 July 2009 10:09am

©The Sun

Kong See Hoh

KUALA LUMPUR (July 20, 2009) : Former MCA vice-president Datuk Chua Jui Meng, who joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) on Saturday, says an overbearing Umno is a hindrance to MCA's efforts to reform itself.

He told Nanyang Siang Pau Umno is very strong resulting in MCA being restrained, and because of this, it is difficult for the party to even reform itself.

"Only by pulling of out the Barisan Nasional (BN) can MCA perform. But because MCA is unable to withdraw from BN, I have no choice but to quit the party," he said.

He said it was after much thought that he decided to join PKR as the party's ideology matches his own.

Chua, 66, a former health minister, contested the president's post in the last two party elections but lost to incumbent Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting in 2005 and to Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat last year.

Chua pointed out that while running for the party top post last year, he already made his stand very clear to delegates, that if the reform within Umno is just superficial, MCA should withdraw from the coalition.

He said he believed that due to his stand, Umno would not have want him to be elected party president.

He stressed that there are a lot of similarities between his ideology and PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's agenda.

Meanwhile, Tee Keat admitted that Chua had chosen to leave the party because it faced interference and pressure from an external force in its efforts to transform itself.

He said Chua had spoken to him on the matter.

He said there were two options one can make when faced with such interference and pressure, and Chua had opted to get out, whereas Tee Keat chose to stand firm and deal with the problems.

Tee Keat told reporters this at a function in Kuala Lumpur yesterday when asked to comment on talks that Chua had left the party due to pressure from Umno.

However, he declined to elaborate on what he meant by "external force".

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Menurut kajian penganalisis politik, MCA dan MIC akan kehilangan sokongan majoriti daripada kaum bukan Melayu tetapi boleh terus bertahan berdasarkan sokongan kaum Melayu UMNO kepada MCA dan MIC. Kesan negatif dari tindakan ini ialah MCA dan MIC akan menjadi lebih akur dan taat sepenuhnya kepada Ketuanan Melayu UMNO. Dalam erti kata lain, mereka tidak akan memperjuangkan kepentingan kaum mereka atau kepentingan mana-mana kaum dengan bersungguh-sungguh sebaliknya menjadi tidak lebih dari barua UMNO yang dahagakan projek. Kasihan. Kita lihat UMNO sudah cukup teruk. Tidak disangka ada parti-parti lain yang sanggup terus tunduk dengan Ketuanan UMNO. Atau, mungkinkah MCA takut 'terjatuh' dari bangunan SPRM?

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