One deputy presidency, two deputy presidents. — file pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — MCA vice-president Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha has played down the prospects of the squabbling top two party leaders quitting their posts, saying the party president should be given more time to reveal details of a peace plan.
The plan, brokered by Barisan Nasional chairman and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, would force Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat to work together with ousted deputy Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek.
“We have to give him some time,” Kong told reporters when asked whether Ong had given any details of the peace plan.
On whether the plan would include a new succession in the party and the retirement of both Ong and Dr Chua, Kong said the issue was not relevant.
“We are talking about unity plan; it was about unity not retirement,” said Kong.
He added that the peace plan allows everyone in the party to play their roles.
“It’s good for the party to move forward, so that everybody will have role to play,” said Kong.
The latest MCA crisis started with the sacking of Dr Chua, for ostensibly smearing the party’s image with a sex DVD in 2007, but the sacking was later reduced to a four-year suspension
Dr Chua’s supporters subsequently forced an EGM where both camps’ had their resolutions voted out by the party’s central delegates, although the former health minister was reinstated as a party member.
Ong has refused to step down, as the motion of no-confidence requires the support of at least two-thirds of the delegates for him to lose the presidency.
Another party vice-president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai was later elected deputy president by the central committee but Dr Chua has asked the Registrar of Societies (ROS) to reinstate him as MCA’s No 2.
Under the peace plan, Liow would remain deputy president for now pending a response from the ROS on Dr Chua’s application to be recognised as deputy president.
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