Status Quo Plus One in MCA

Well the much awaited CC meeting in MCA has come and gone. As the President continues to lick his wounds of defeat, Vice President Liow ascended to deputyship, albeit by a simple majority vote. I guess, he may just be a temporary seat warmer.

Whatever happened to the guts of Kho Cho Ha is anybody's guess. Poor chap. He was seen as a potential take-over candidate. He seems to have given up.

So the status? No one is out of the woods as far MCA is concerned. The battle drags on.

After 5 hours of indecision at the CC Meeting, Ong Tee Keat had to invoke his presidential powers to call for another extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to decide whether the party should hold fresh elections.

These five hours of horsetrading showed a new pattern of support emerging. It appears that there are clearly three groups in the central committee. One, the Ong loyalists, then a splinter group of Ong's faction led by Liow Tiong Lai and finally Dr Chua's supporters.

As an imminent EGM looms, the party becomes more fractured than ever.

These may be early hours but Dr. Chua's group is not waiting to lose lead time. They have dug their heels in to ready themselves for this new EGM, much to the dismay of those who wanted to distribute the 'spoils of war' even before Tee Kiat can get out of his chair honourably.

Things may not be looking too good for Liow as he has been seen to be too impatient to move up from his current Vice Presidentship. His coterie of supporters are also seen as a treacherous lot!

The initiated knows that nothing new is going to come out of the new EGM. It will again be a stalemate of sorts as both Ong Tee Kiat and Dr. Chua cross swords again. It will be a Pyrrhic victory for whosoever wins as half the party will never be with him, heart and soul.

Desertion is on the cards as DAP and PKR awaits the eventual fall-out. It is theirs to gain and MCA, to lose big time.