MCA deputy president Mah Hang Soon explains the rationale behind the party’s support for PN to form the government after the general election. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: MCA has clarified its support of Perikatan Nasional (PN) during the political impasse after the general election, stating that it was “informed by certain senior BN leaders” that BN should join PN to form the new government.
“This was a situation similar to Gabungan Parti Sarawak (where) various news reports had disclosed that GPS also initially supported PN after they were told that BN had agreed to support PN,” said MCA deputy president Mah Hang Soon in a statement.
“Subsequently, it was decided in BN’s first Supreme Council meeting after the election that BN’s first preference was to stay netural and to remain in the opposition.”
He added that MCA president Wee Ka Siong had proposed that any statutory declaration from indivdual BN MPs should be “cancelled immediately”, with BN then instructing all BN MPs to do so.
The general election on Nov 19 ended in a hung Parliament, with Pakatan Harapan chairman Anwar Ibrahim then appointed prime minister to lead a unity government comprising BN, Gabungan Parti Sarawak and Gabungan Rakyat Sabah.
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