MCA crisis: Najib to step in

The prime minister, who has so far resisted openly intervening in the MCA leadership tussle, said today he will meet party leaders individually after describing the crisis as getting “worse” and “more serious”.

"For there to be a unity plan, it must be reflected in actions," said Datuk Seri Najib Razak, adding that many people were upset with what was going on in the MCA.

MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat yesterday dropped Youth chief Datuk Wee Ka Siong, Wanita chief Datuk Paduka Chew Mei Fun and seven others aligned to vice-president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai from the party’s presidential council.

Ong's decision to drop Liow's supporters has plunged the party deeper into crisis with a disputed EGM looming.

The party president replaced Liow's men on the presidential council with supporters of Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, reflecting a deal between the two men to fill party appointments with leaders aligned either with Ong or Dr Chua.

“I will find the time to meet them separately," said Najib today, in remarks reflecting Umno's growing unease with developments in the MCA.

When asked how he intends to resolve the crisis, Najib said: “Leave it to me," while adding that he would issue a statement when he was ready.

He said unlike Umno which was now stable, the MCA crisis did not instil confidence and was hampering Barisan Nasional's (BN) efforts to resuscitate the coalition and to reforms its image in the eyes of the public.

"The people now see Umno as stable as it has gone through a process of reforming itself. Umno is now stable and we hope other parties will come together to put up a new image of Barisan Nasional."


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Finally, the master of the puppet has shown his true colour. There goes all the efforts in exposing the scandals in port Klang graft. All would be covered up and everything would be back to "normal". Everyone would continue to such the hard-earn money of ordinary citizen in the name of national development.

till today, I still don't understand why people still vote for BN. Why?

MCA worse than MIC, always invite external interference to solve its problems. Do you think whoever the President installed by these external influences have the backbone to fight for the community's interest ??

If Malaysia really want to reform and change into a better life for these people just kicked out these defectors and self important fellow to served them a lesson. How can they manage to do good for the people since they has so many interior problem. How are they going to concentrate well to work for the people especially come to LTL since he were holing an important post as a Health. We want more work like how to solve the H1N1 and not day after day keep growing crisis.