Chua cadang MCA keluar dari Barisan Nasional
The Malaysian Insider
10hb. Ogos, 2009
Chua Jui Meng cadang MCA keluar dari Barisan Nasional
Oleh Zukri Aksah
Bekas Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Chua Jui Meng berkata, sudah beberapa kali beliau mencadangkan kepada kepimpinan MCA agar parti itu keluar dari Barisan Nasional (BN).

Cadangan ini beliau buat kerana marahkan sikap buruk beberapa kerat pemimpin UMNO yang mereka buat melalui kenyataan dan sikap mereka. Chua berkata demikian dalam ceramahnya di Kuantan malam tadi.
Chua adalah bekas Naib Presiden MCA. Baru-baru ini Chua telah mengisytiharkan diri keluar dari MCA dan menyertai Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR). Semasa dalam MCA, Chua pernah dua kali mencuba menawarkan diri untuk bertanding jawatan Presiden, tetapi dalam kedua-dua percubaan, beliau ditolak oleh perwakilan.
Mengulas tentang ini, Chua dalam ceramahnya di sini semalam mendedahkan yang beliau ditolak kerana beliau telah beberapa kali mencadang dan menyarankan agar MCA membuat ketetapan keluar dari BN jika perangai beberapa kerat pemimpin UMNO tidak berubah.
Bahkan dalam satu langkah yang dikira drastik, Chua pernah mengusulkan satu resolusi supaya semua menteri, timbalan menteri, exco kerajaan negeri dan wakil rakyat MCA meletak jawatan jika UMNO tidak berubah dan terus membohongi rakyat. Malangnya resolusi beliau ini telah ditolak.
Chua dalam ceramahnya semalam juga menjelaskan tentang tindakannya menyertai PKR. Ujar beliau keputusan ini bukanlah sesuatu yang mudah, apalagi perkhidmatannya bersama MCA selama 33 tahun bukanlah satu tempoh masa yang pendek.
Ia bermula bila secara sulit beliau telah berkesempatan bertemu dengan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, dan dalam pertemuan itu Anwar sempat menitipkannya senaskah manifesto PKR, yang kemudiannya didapati begitu selari dengan perubahan yang cuba dibawanya ke dalam MCA dahulu.
Walaupun memutuskan untuk keluar MCA dan menyertai PKR adalah keputusan yang agak berat, dan sudah tentu mengundang banyak kejutan dari kalangan banyak pihak, namun Chua rela meninggalkan segalanya semata-mata perjuangan perubahannya untuk kebaikan rakyat.
Tambah Chua, beliau kini rasa bebas dan puas terutamanya bila bersuara untuk rakyat kerana beliau tidak lagi perlu berselindung seperti dalam kerajaan dan dalam MCA/BN dahulu.
Chua percaya bahawa era politik berasaskan kaum dan perkauman sudah berakhir. Mana-mana pergerakan politik yang mahu mencuba nasib pada masa ini haruslah membawa aspirasi rakyat yang pelbagai kaum dan latar belakang.
Dalam ceramahnya semalam, Chua menegaskan keputusan Pilihanraya Umum Ke-12 yang lalu adalah bukti akan kepercayaannya ini, BN hanya mendapat 46 peratus undi popular!
BN kalah di semua ibu negeri di Semenanjung Malaysia kecuali di Kangar dan Johor Baru, BN hanya menang satu dari sebelas kerusi parlimen dalam Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur.
Bagi Chua tidak ada kesimpulan lain yang boleh dibuat dari angka-angka ini melainkan hanya satu, ini adalah bukti kukuh yang rakyat telah menolak UMNO dan BN.
” …. ini adalah bukti kukuh yang ra’ayat telah menolak UMNO dan BN.” .. chua jui meng.
BAMBI - August 11, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Really? If Jimmy the Seer’s hopes come true, i for one will be jumping off the sinking, reeking and waterlogged dinghy that PR will become! I prefer to drown – even dogs have dignity and integrity.
Look, no offence meant to unmentionable party (during Tun TanSiewSin’s time) – but they are now in the abyss of pit latrines. They can’t do business without corruption besides being hopelessly stuck in their blue ocean awaiting the red tide.
I can’t imagine another party that has devolved to such a state of disrepair and chaos! There we have factions of anglophiles(bananas) versus the sinophiles(bile) – all of whom have teloq smaller than quails eggs – with some weighing in at one chickpea(dhall), and thus their putrid fear of the keris bearers.
Please la… have mercy on us H5N1(chicken flu) afflicted souls!
Menyalak-er - August 11, 2009 at 11:36 pm
With all due respect, my question is directed to Chua Jui Meng. How were you going to continue to keep your MCA members if MCA truly left barisan?
I know for a fact most of your businessmen members are only there because MCA is able to get contracts for them. Without this lifeline, they would disappear faster than you can ask “what happened?”. Isn’t the ‘contracts’ the real reason MCA is very quiet and submissive in BN? You scratch my back and I will scratch yours.
Please, do correct me if I am wrong. I wish I am wrong here Mr Chua.
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Thanks and welcome, DeepSeaDriver. Chua Jui Meng reads my blog and comments posted on it. I am sure he will respond to your comments.
Look forward to reading your comments in fuure. We have to deal with people like Mickey and Ilham who are kicking the dust and making our lives very challenging. I welcome all,pros and cons, but let us have good and reasoned discourse and avoid name calling, profanities and seditious comments.—Din Merican
DeepSeaDiver - August 12, 2009 at 9:01 am
Hello Din,
I am sorry i am unsure weather to call you Encik or Dato. Pardon me if i have been rude.
I am encouraged and humbled you would personally answer my mail.
I really feel Pakatan could perhaps learn from Dato Chua on his plans HAD the MCA left BN. Perhaps then we could persuade/draw the MCA businessmen to join our course?
Thank you so much Sir.
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DeepSeaWater,
I am just Din, no titles except for a postgraduate degree in business from the US many moons ago. Please read my welcome on this blog for my background and experience in the corporate world, Foreign Ministry and Bank Negara. Let us, therefore dispense with all formalities. I am interested in your perspectives and ideas.
Businessmen are also disillusioned with UMNO-BN. Some of them have been discriminated against, although they have the financial resources, expertise, and experience to undertake and manage projects at competitive rates.
No business man wants to pay under table money, if they can help it, because such payments are taken up by politicians in power via high project costs and variation orders. Such projects then become costly to the Malaysian taxpayers and the public, e.g. high toll rates for use of highways, and high utility charges.—Din Merican
DeepSeaDiver - August 12, 2009 at 10:30 am
For lunch we better go to Peru and enjoy this evergreen Los Indos Tabajaraj at Machu Pichu
EL CONDOR PASA
tean - August 12, 2009 at 1:23 pm
This one to welcome Datuk Chua Jui Meng to PKR.
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tean - August 12, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Honestly Din, those opportunistic SME/I Sino businessmen who pandered to unmentionable party (without gratification), have since gravitated to PKR in Selangor, Penang and Perak. I don’t have illusions about most of them – they are keeping their unmentionable party cards at the same time.
Who says they not practical? Parasites or saprophytes, no one can tell.
It’s about time we realize that these flurs will be the ones fighting for local councillors posts, causing the havoc that is happening now. On the other hand we have 2 generations of TARC graduates who seem to be their base – many who’re as rascist as any bumno chappie from UiTM. Many will be supporting PR just because of this, not because they are not beholden to unmentionable – but will disappear like mist when the going gets tough. Their eternal adage being ‘periok nasi’.
In the meantime. do we really need discarded ‘branded’ baggage whose opthalmic reality is only focused on Chinese education by rote learning, being horrified of H1N1 and their cultural hubris? Their top leaders are truly myopic, dumb and deaf.
I don’t have anything personal about Jimmy Chua, and I think he is a decent, brave person especially after being ‘reborn’ (caution needed in interpreting this) – but I would encourage him to discern and have wisdom (not of himself), should he decide ‘winnow the chaff from the wheat (or padi)’.
Menyalak-er - August 12, 2009 at 2:10 pm
BN kalah di semua ibu negeri di Semenanjung Malaysia kecuali di Kangar dan Johor Baru. Chua.
P9 ALOR STAR = YB. DATUK WIRA CHOR CHEE HEUNG (BN)
Apa lu cakap Tauke?
tean - August 12, 2009 at 6:27 pm
tean,
My daughter-in-law is from Peru. Their civilization started way ahead of western civilization perhaps earlier than even the Chinese civilization 5,000 years ago. One day soon United States will be like Peru today. Hordes of jobless Americans will be travelling to India and China looking for jobs.
In my case I hope to go to Mongolia.
Mr Bean - August 12, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I solute your son for making the smart choice. One of my friend, who was there a couple of years ago still longing to go back to the place every time we met.
He is blaming the British officers and their wives for not following the Spanish gentlemen tradition in Latin American countries. They have produce the highest number of Miss Universe. No?
You should visit your daughter-in-law and her village instead of Mongolia. Malaysians are not welcome to ride the horses anymore for obvious reason. We are worst than Genghis Khan and his arrows.
tean - August 12, 2009 at 8:53 pm
tean - August 12, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Yes, tean.
Don’t forget. When Din Merican was here doing his Masters in Washington DC he was chased all over town by these beauties.
Mr Bean - August 12, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Is it a coincidence that Cik Cun looks Puerto Rican??
Mr Bean - August 12, 2009 at 11:38 pm
in,
Thank you for your graciousness and your excellent down to earth demeanour. I shall address you as, “Din”, but with no less respect.
I suppose my question to Dato’ Chua had to do with what must be perceived as an unholy alliance of business and politics. One only needs to read the PKFZ scandal presently unfolding in the media to realise that proper boundaries of behaviour are often crossed motivated by greed and graft. As I said, this aptly illustrates the culture of, “You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours”, in our nation. It is not a problem unique to Malaysia, but here it is more brazen and, very sadly, almost an accepted part of life.
We need to return to a culture of knowing what moral shame is. A former president of South Korea kills himself over an alleged bribe of US$6 million due to his shame and remorse, while Khir Toyo builds a mansion that costs perhaps just as much, but remains defiant in the face of criticism;(I am, of course, in no way suggestion Khir should kill himself) a good illustration of what I am talking about. No need to tell you which society is more advanced today.
I am glad we have good people like yourself willing to take the lead and to patiently educate us, the rakyat.
Thank you Din.
DeepSeaDiver
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DeepSeaDiver, morally, we are a nation without shame. It is going to take a lot of effort from all of us to deal with this inertia.Vested interests will resist change,but it is not an impossible task, only requiring a new set of political leaders led by Anwar Ibrahim and public support. That is my belief. Of course pro-UMNO elements like Ilham feel differently. Thanks for you comments.–Din Merican
DeepSeaDiver - August 13, 2009 at 10:36 am