MCA aka Mired in Crisis Association

Delegates at the EGM on 10/10/09 dealt a near fatal blow to both the President (OKT) and the Deputy (CSL). The result was a shock to most delegates. Not only it did not resolve the original crisis but instead drove the party deeper into crisis.

During the campaign leading up to the EGM, OKT did mention that the Presidential Council and the Central Committee would resign en block if a vote of no confidence against him was passed. CSL's camp countered it by saying that it was not fair for OKT to hold the delegates at ransom. OKT later announced that he would take sole reponsibility and resign should the no confidence vote is passed.

The aftershocks of the EGM were far reaching. First, OTK refused to step down after the EGM. Instead he blamed that some of his so called loyal liutenants had back stabbed him by not voting him during the EGM which he lost narrowly. These same group of people were later acccused of power crazy and were behind the plot to force him to resign from the president's post after the EGM. He further revealed that the sacking of CSL as deputy President and the suspension of his party membership were recommended by these same lietenants. He felt utterly betrayed.

In response, he has decided to call for a second EGM! At the same time, CSL has written to the Registrar of Societies (ROS) for an reinstalment of his deputy president's position in the party! Meantime, Liow Tiong Lai, who was appointed as the deputy President to replace CSL was himself defending an allegation over a MPV gift to his wife by a company often invloved in his Health Ministry's projects!The latest development(20/10/09)in MCA is that OTK has removed its legal bureau chief!

What has happened in MCA has parallels in UMNO and MIC as well. The No 1 and No 2 in these 3 parties do not always get along well and are forever at each other's throats!

The MCA crisis has dragged on for a while and the party's Ministers and Deputy Ministers are practically involved full time in the party's affairs. Is it fair for the taxpayers to continue to pay them full time salary for doing nothing?