Recently at the AGM, the President of MCA told the delegates attending that the party will leave BN should "some allies" wish to continue working with Harapan in the next GE.
Ready to leave?
Still an `if’ situation.
Why wait?
Is the party going solo for the next GE if they leave or they will join PN or other political parties and form a new coalition to contest in the next GE?
Just like in the last GE and in the recent elections in Sabah, highly likely their allies in BN will only officially announce whether they are going solo or continue working with Harapan at the last minute.
Wouldn’t that be too late for the party to draw support or the party leadership have the firm belief that their supporters will follow suit and vote for them even when they are going solo?
Don’t continue to be an ostrich and stick your head in the sand.
To say the party still has many options is not accepting reality and views from the ground.
Grow a spine and walk out now.
You are not ignored or sidelined in the political coalition you called home for the last 60+ years.
It was obvious you are irrelevant.
In fact, probably whatever views you have goes straight to the rubbish bins in your so called partner’s office.
Since the general elections in 2008, as a party, you have not done anything to change yourself to remain relevant to the people of Malaysia.
You continued in your pretenses and thought that by pandering to Malaysians of chinese descent, one day in the future, you will be returned to power.
Each successive general election thereafter was painful and excruciating to watch.
MCA’s horizon undershoots reality by at least 2 decades.
The country’s fractured political system shows no sign that MCA will be able to jumpstart the return of support to them.
The President can say whatever he wants, but the ground beneath him and the party has shifted.
Probably their partners in the political coalition also can’t tolerate the party’s `extortion’.
The same goes for the ordinary rakyat too.
It has move past intolerance to indifference to whether the party stand in any elections, be it by elections or state or national level.
The ramifications of the voting public’s new approach to establised political parties – started in the 2018 General Elections – are just beginning to be felt.
The results from the recent elections in Sabah is just the tip of the iceberg of a longer and sustainable voting trend.
If the party wished to regain support from the voting public, the party has to develop a myriad of strategies from scratch, an exercise which will take time and a longer `runway’ and that will cost millions of Ringgit and a commensurate amount of political capital.
Can and is the present leadership willing to do it?
The answer is NO.
The most likely strategy for the party is the Malaysian classic—pretend everything is fine, declare everything “taken out of context,” and hope voters forget by next week.
Getting out from the coalition now could probably `buy’ some goodwill and renewed support from the ordinary rakyat.
DAP, their arch and avowed enemy, is not the hurdle the party needs to overcome.
It is the mindset of the members of the party and the present leadership.
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