BN to form Working Committee to study BN restructure

At the BN Supreme Council Meeting this morning, MCA led by party President Datuk Seri Ir Dr Wee Ka Siong, Deputy President Dato’ Dr Mah Hang Soon and Secretary General Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun put forward a proposal for the dissolution of BN, as per the resolution that was adopted at the party’s Meeting of the Annual General Assembly (AGM) held on 2 December 2018 to appoint the Central Committee to initiate the process of the dissolution of BN, and as per the joint press statement issued with the Malaysian Indian Congress on 4 March 2019 for MCA and MIC to explore a new alliance.

As all decisions in BN must be made by consensus and not by unilateral decision, our party’s proposal was therefore not taken up as it failed to receive consensus from the component parties. UMNO and MIC are of the view that there is no need for BN to dissolve.

The BN Supreme Council meeting also decided to establish a working committee to study the restructuring of BN.

As MCA was not able to push through the MCA resolution as adopted on 2 Dec 2018, this matter must be reported to the MCA Central Committee which will convene a meeting on 17 March 2019 to deliberate on what our next course of action should be.

Meanwhile, we would like inform that during the meeting, MCA and MIC had made clear our stand that the appointment of Dato’ Seri Nazri Aziz as BN Secretary General was illegal and not recognised by both our parties. Since Dato’ Seri Nazri’s appointment was not approved in the BN Supreme Council meeting, the post of BN Secretary General will still be held by Dato’ Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor as he has not resigned from this post.

Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun
Secretary General
Malaysian Chinese Association

-MCA online-