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| A master move — Hsu Dar Ren |
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| Monday, 12 October 2009 10:04am | |
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© The Malaysian Insider (Used by permission) OCT 12 — The just-concluded MCA EGM was a lesson in the Art of Politics. But this was what actually happened. Someone behind the scene galvanised a small force of 30-50 delegates. By voting as a bloc, and voting one way for the first resolution, another way for the second resolution and yet another for the third resolution, this small group of 30 to 50 members succeeded in bringing down two big elephants.
Whoever is behind this is a (are) master strategist(s). This is the result best suited to the Big Brother. Is the Big Brother behind this/these master strategist/s? We will probably never know. MCA is an important link in BN. If either Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat or Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek won , the party would be split. A badly split MCA would not be able to win back the lost Chinese votes. On the contrary, given the history of leg pulling in the past, a split MCA could lose whatever little support it still has among the Chinese voters. At the moment, 80 per cent of the Chinese votes are with the other side, but with the party badly split, it would lose a big portion of the remaining 20 per cent too. So it is to the advantage of the Big Brother to have a totally new leader, hoping that this new leader can help to patch up the two factions. A more united party might be able to win back a certain percentage of support of the Chinese, so the thinking goes. It would have appeared so, but in truth, this might not happen, given the sentiments prevailing among the Chinese community. But if I am the big brother, I would certainly follow this line of thinking. Coming back to the EGM results, I think it would be honourable for the whole central committee (CC) to resign, since the suspension of Dr Chua was a collective CC decision. I think it will be proper ethically to call for a fresh election. Ong was quoted in the Chinese press as saying that “the sun rises and the sun sets”. Using the analogy, he told reporters that when he assumed the top position, he already knew that one day he has to come down. I think that should be the way of any leader. A leader must know when it is time for him to go up, and when it is time for him to come down. Unfortunately, a leader with a scandalous past did not see it that way, and by not knowing when to give up, indirectly precipitated his own suspension, and brought the party to such a stage. With this disarray in MCA and the growing irrelevance of MIC, I see that a lot of uncertainty has been injected into the political scene, and who knows, a realignment of forces may happen sooner than most of us would think possible. — hsudarren.wordpress.com Comments (1)
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Circular No 231/2010: 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Forum Conference
Anyone familiar with the Chinese war story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms would not find this surprising at all.
It is the duty now of the Central Committee(CC) to move on.
There is no necessity for the CC to resign.
The CC can be compared with the Court of Appeal. When the Federal Court overrules the decision of the Court of Appeal, the Federal Court never demands the resignation of the Court of Appeal.The delegates never say that the CC must resign.
As trustees for the delegates the CC must now take immediate steps to implement the decision of the delegates in accordance with the party constitution.