It just occurred to me that if MCA were to continue as a race-based political party, it could be a Chinese Perkasa if it so wished, by being independent of Barisan Nasional!
Many people have expressed their opinions about race-based political parties being anachronistic in a more politically correct environment. MCA is being perceived as hanging on to their Ministerial and other positions provided as part of Barisan Nasional, to give the coalition a multi-racial appearance. Within BN, each race-based party seems to 'fight for its race' to give it relevance, but to others, their 'fights' are nothing more than 'shadow plays'.
Now, with the advent of Perkasa, the charade is further fine-tuned to have a separate body, a so-called NGO, to do the 'dirty work' for Umno, with obvious acquiescence. This has prompted Donald Lim to suggest a Chinese Perkasa to counter the growing influence of the original! To add to the silliness, the DPM seems agreeable to any type of Perkasa! Are we going backwards in our politics?
MCA might as well leave BN so that they can be free to do what they think as their continued relevance in fighting for Chinese rights, rather than a multi-racial approach to fighting for universal rights.
Will MCA's influence be further eroded in the next general election? GE12 had reduced their number of MPs from 40 to 15. Would the present leadership rather wait until further erosion of support before they are prepared to reform?
I can see if MCA and MIC were to be dissociated from Umno, the latter will be the only race-based party left to continue its racist approach.
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