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Balakong By-Election – MCA Flirts With PAS, But They Don’t Want The Chinese To Know



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Sep 05 2018
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UMNO, PAS and MCA are trying to do what the previous opposition – PKR, PAS and DAP – had done. The PKR-PAS-DAP partnership which gave birth to the now-defunct Pakatan Rakyat coalition was a huge success when they succeeded in denying Barisan Nasional its two-thirds supermajority in the Malaysian Parliament in the 2008 general election.

 

Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi was booted and Najib Razak took over after the 2008’s disastrous results. Najib led the ruling-party coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) and its 14 component parties campaigning on a platform to promote economic growth and political and social security in the 2013 general election – hoping to win back many seats that it had lost.

 

The loose coalition of PKR, PAS and DAP, still under Pakatan Rakyat platform, went to the battlefield and did better – winning the popular vote for the first time. Although BN still won the federal government, albeit losing the popular vote, PM Najib did worse than his predecessor Abdullah Badawi, winning only 133 parliamentary seats from 140 seats previously.

Najib Razak and Hadi Awang - Opposition Break-Up and RM90 Million

After bribing Islamic party PAS with RM90 million, Mr. Najib thought he had the formula of breaking up the opposition parties. Sure enough, the Pakatan Rakyat coalition fell apart with PAS President Hadi Awang switching sides and became Najib’s biggest apologist. The death of Pakatan Rakyat saw the birth of a new opposition coalition – Pakatan Harapan.

 

As fate would have it, the losing of PAS was re-balanced with a new stronger force in the emergence of a new party PPBM, or simply Bersatu, led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and PAS splinter group Amanah, and the rest is history. On May 9th, the supposedly invincible BN lost its power for the first time in 61 years since independence in 1957.

 

Still licking wounds, UMNO and MCA are copying the recipe of the previous opposition coalition – flirting and sleeping with PAS. While UMNO has gone to bed with PAS several times but refuse to admit publicly they are lovers, MCA is struggling with its relationship with PAS. Unlike DAP-PAS alliance in the past, MCA had never imagined they would hold hands, let alone sleeps with PAS.

Balakong By-Election - MCA-PAS Partnership

It was a strange combo, like a bowl of curry laksa with durian as topping. As the Balakong by-election going full swing, it was indeed a weird feeling, not to mention hilarious, when PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan showed up for an MCA “ceramah (campaign gathering)”. It was perhaps the first time in history that Mr. Takiyuddin appeared for the Chinese-based MCA campaign.

 

MCA deputy president Wee Ka Siong, the sole survival after his party was slaughtered ferociously by opposition-turned-government DAP, reportedly said his party had not invited Mr. Takiyuddin to attend its ceramah. Although the campaign attracted only about 20 people, clearly Mr. Wee was very cautious about the presence of a representative from the Islamist party.

 

BN component MCA has proudly rejected and opposed PAS’ ideological fight to implement “Hudud”, the strict and ancient Shariah criminal punishments, in the country.  MCA had even mocked, laughed and insulted its arch-rival DAP for working with an Islamist party as extreme as PAS. Now, it appears, MCA has little choice but to taste its own medicine.

PAS Hudud Law - Cartoon

While UMNO has little trouble sleeping with PAS, MCA struggles even at holding hands with PAS. Takiyuddin declares that PAS’ ideological stance would not change even if it supports MCA. Yeah, right! But how could the Islamist party support a “kafir” party such as MCA whose history of attacking PAS over its ambitions to turn Malaysia into a theocratic state is well documented.

 

In the same breath, how could MCA allow itself to be seen on the same stage as PAS. If Wee Ka Siong has what little dignity and principle left, he should tell Takiyuddin politely to leave. After all, by his own admission, the PAS leader had actually gate-crashed the party as an uninvited guest. Of course, the whole drama could have been staged from the beginning.

 

Wee, the drama queen who can act better than Bollywood celebrities could have invited Takiyuddin to help swing as many Malay-Muslims as possible to vote for MCA so that the party won’t lose its deposit – again. Although both MCA and PAS lost their deposits in the recent 2018 general election, PAS had actually garnered more votes (6,230) than MCA (5,874).

MCA Rejects PAS Hudud

Combined, both MCA and PAS could theoretically grab 12,104 votes. Sure, it’s not enough to defeat DAP’s impressive 35,538-vote majority. But it’s sufficient to convince both MCA and PAS grassroots that in order to make the new Pakatan government run for its money, both parties have to start dating each other more often (*grin*).

 

However, MCA is playing with fire, not that the party has any better option. Already known to the ethnic Chinese (the same community it claimed to represent) as a lapdog that is subservient to UMNO, its flirting with PAS could backfire spectacularly. In 2013, MCA ran advertisements claiming that a vote for DAP was a vote for PAS and hudud. In 2015, they repeated that mantra again.

 

Today, MCA is at the receiving end. A vote for MCA is a vote for PAS and hudud. That’s the clearest proof that MCA is working – quietly – with PAS in promoting not only hudud but also selling out the ethnic Chinese just to get some votes. And how could MCA possibly champion the interest of Chinese community when its other partner, UMNO, claims otherwise – that the Malays had lost power to Chinese?

Balakong By-Election - MCA Leaders - PAS Partnership

When DAP worked with PAS back in 2008, the Hudud Law was not part of Pakatan agreement. After the death of PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz, Hadi Awang suddenly claimed that the Pakatan leadership council had agreed to PAS’ intention to have hudud. DAP immediately severed its relationship with PAS, leading to the demise of Pakatan Rakyat.

 

MCA is worse than a prostitute. They knew PAS is aggressively pushing for hudud yet they play dumb. At least PAS prostituted themselves for UMNO’s pleasure because Najib paid them RM90 million to spread their legs and do blowjobs. PAS didn’t pay MCA a dime but already the shameless MCA-Chinese are ready to undress and bend over to be screwed by PAS.

 

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