Senior BN leaders told MCA to support PN at first - MCA deputy president

Senior BN leaders told MCA to support PN at first - MCA deputy president


MCA deputy president Mah Hang Soon revealed today that unnamed senior BN leaders had told the party to support Perikatan Nasional in the aftermath of the 15th general election.

The revelation comes after PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang claimed that PN has signed statutory declarations (SD) from MCA and MIC backing Muhyiddin Yassin.

Mah (above) in his statement today, neither confirmed nor denied whether MCA's two MPs had signed any SDs supporting PN.

He said the initial advice from the "senior BN leaders" to back the PN was based on BN's "no DAP" and "no Anwar" decision from before the 15th general election.

He said a similar situation had also happened to GPS, which had originally said it would join PN in forming a government with BN.

However, BN denied this, and a supreme council meeting it later held decided at that time to remain a neutral opposition coalition.

At that meeting, Mah said, MCA president Wee Ka Siong also suggested that anyone who had signed SDs supporting PN should withdraw it - a position which BN as a whole adopted.

MCA and BN are now part of the government with Pakatan Harapan.

Muhyiddin and PN claimed they had 115 MPs on their side before Anwar cobbled together a majority in the Dewan Rakyat.

Hadi had cited the alleged SDs by MCA and MIC in an effort to show that PAS was not extremist as non-Muslim parties were not deterred from backing PN.