If electoral rolls are tainted, Pakatan election victors should resign

MCA HQ, 28 Jun Chairing a press conference after deliberations at the MCA Presidential Council meeting, MCA President Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek put forward the partys position on the illegal assembly which certain personalities intend to stage on 9 July 2011.

The President expressed his concerns that the Opposition was manipulating the rally to further its own political purpose. We cannot accept that the reason offered for the illegal assembly is to call for free, fair and democratic general elections and that the claims that the electoral roll is tainted.

We reject this accusation because in 2007, the same accusations were offered and after that (rally), Pakatan Rakyat won overwhelmingly at the 2008 general elections, continued Soi Lek while referring to the political tsunami where the Opposition swept five states and for the first time in history, denied the Barisan Nasional our two-thirds majority in Parliament.

Without mincing his words, the party chief said,if they were elected on a tainted roll, they should have the political and moral courage to resign then. Why hold on to power after three years and then say, oh, it is tainted?

Soi Lek had also highlighted to the media on the Oppositions self-contradictions it is very simple. What is obvious is that Pakatan Rakyat is consistently inconsistent because it keeps backtracking and eating its own words.

(For Bersih) to say that the electoral roll is tainted is to make a mockery. It is to make Malaysians look as if we cant see through Pakatan being consistent on inconsistence.

Perkasa and UMNO Youth staging rallies is not the solution

A reporter had also asked for MCAs comments considering remarks by the police that the rally would b! e chaoti c since there will be three simultaneous rallies including that by Perkasa and UMNO Youth. The fundamental right to assembly should be done to achieve a certain goal. UMNO and others have the right to assembly but it is MCAs position that it would not resolve problems.

To a reporters question that Bersih organizer Dato Ambiga had said that the rally was for democracy, the party President retorted, What sort of democracy if they say that if (PM) Najib meets them, they will call it off whilst urging journalists gathered to look up the blogs and registration of Bersih, the address and registration can be traced to a political party, I was told.

If Bersih is not connected to a political party, why is Pakatan Rakyat, especially DAP, PKR and PAS holding ceramahs to attend Berish and going all the way out? They should have the political integrity to resign if the electoral rolls are tainted as they allege.

-MCA online-