FMT - No need for MCA to close shop over Balakong defeat, says ex-DAP MP (extracts):
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Jeff Ooi |
PETALING JAYA: A former DAP MP said the unfavourable result for MCA in the Balakong by-election should not be used as a sign that the Chinese party should “close shop”.
Jeff Ooi, the former Jelutong representative, said Malaysia still needed opposition parties such as the MCA for check and balance purposes.
“We do not want to see any political party becoming too strong in a democracy. Check and balance certainly has to come from the opposition,” he told FMT, in response to DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang’s call for MCA to “close shop” after failing in the May 9 polls and yesterday’s by-election.
Jeff Ooi, the former Jelutong representative, said Malaysia still needed opposition parties such as the MCA for check and balance purposes.
“We do not want to see any political party becoming too strong in a democracy. Check and balance certainly has to come from the opposition,” he told FMT, in response to DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang’s call for MCA to “close shop” after failing in the May 9 polls and yesterday’s by-election.
Jeff Ooi is correct and a true democrat in wanting even his own party, the DAP, to be "checked" when it is now strong - by extrapolation from Jeff's advice, the MCA is still required to check the DAP, especially one which has been led songsang by Lim Kit Siang in his sinister bromance with Mahathir, the pribumi anti-China Imperator.
But it saddens me when Lim KS, once a true statesman and one of my two icons (Karpal being the other one) has gone the UMNO way of attempting to close down the opposition.
Does he fear their check & balance on his "new" style of politics or that of his son Guan Eng?
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by his volte-face stand against Malaysia's worst scandals, which he raved and rant about for 30+ years, he has by his current silence on Mahathir's past PM-scandals become a traitor to the True Believers |