Soi Lek wants fresh polls, asks Tee Keat to quit

By Lee Wei Lian - The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 — Former MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has urged the party to hold fresh elections and called on his bitter rival Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat to resign by Thursday.

He also urged the party office bearers appointed by Ong to step down and asked Ong not to chair the central committee meeting this Thursday.

The central committee is meeting then to resolve the question of whether Ong should resign after the party general assembly passed a motion of no confidence against him.

"Only then can there be real democracy," Dr Chua told the media in his first press conference since the general assembly last Saturday overturned his suspension but rejected his bid to come back as deputy president.

He was coy however on whether he would run in an election, saying he will only decide after the central committee makes a decision.