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Sunday 22 December 2013

Subra: Maintain the consensus system

MIC deputy president wants the consensus system to be maintained in Barisan Nasional decision making.

KUALA LUMPUR: MIC deputy president S Subramaniam believes that all decision within Barisan Nasional (BN) should be by consensus .

Speaking to reporters after attending the 60th MCA General Assembly in absence of MIC party president G Palanivel, he states that the consensus system have given unity and political stability to the country.

“The day you remove the element of political discussion and decision by consensus then it will give rise to a state of unhappiness particularly among minority groups.

“The view has not been put in BN meeting yet and it’s worth if we can show to the world how we do decision by consensus,” said Subramaniam.

On Monday, BN secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said the BN constitution should be amended so that all decisions can be made using a majority vote against the consensus system practiced now.

BN chairman Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has been informed of the matter and the proposal will be submitted at the BN Supreme Council meeting, next year.

Leaders from MCA also want the existing system to be maintained while one from People’s Progressive Party (PPP) stresses that the coalition needs to change its system to a workable one.

Subramaniam also added that the poor of any community should be helped and it will be the basis of intervention effects to bring back good support for BN.

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