Wee rejects Teresa's 'MCA sesat' remarks
MCA president Wee Ka Siong has hit out at DAP vice-president Teresa Kok’s labelling of the BN component as “sesat” or misguided in its supposed attacks on her party.
He also insisted that MCA will continue to speak up with constructive criticisms of the government, contrary to Kok’s claim of his words being a sign of unwillingness to work together with the DAP or Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s administration.
Wee cited Kok’s remarks in an interview with Utusan Malaysia today when she was asked to comment on DAP’s current relations with MCA as parties in government.
“The question is simple, and the answer is whether we have a cordial relationship or otherwise.
“She could have just answered the original question and not gone off-topic.
“She also claimed that I have only ‘attacked’ DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke. Now that is slanderous of her,” stressed the Ayer Hitam MP in a statement on Facebook.
The former transport minister said while he had criticised Loke as his successor, both issues were on matters of public interest - data security concerns over the MyJPJ application, and airfares to Sabah and Sarawak.
Check and balance
Wee pointed out that he had also spoken up on issues handled by other ministries and triggered policy changes, including stopping the import of eggs from India and waiving of DuitNow QR code fee by banks.
DAP vice-president Teresa Kok
"MCA's role in Parliament remains as a ‘check and balance’ in the democratic system.
“After all, at this point, there are no MPs of Chinese descent from the opposition bloc to provide checks and balances,” he said.
“If not MCA, who else? Whatever the government's good policies that benefit the people, MCA will support them 100 percent, while for policies that harm the common people, MCA feels the need to speak up even though DAP looks down on the only two MCA representatives in the Dewan Rakyat,” he added.
Further, Wee said he had gained support from Sarawak deputy premier Dr Sim Kui Hian, as well as DAP's Bandar Kuching MP Kelvin Yii, when he recently spoke up against a policy that all forms of alternative medicine services regulated by the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Act 2016 are subject to the six percent Sales and Service Tax.
In the interview, Kok said Wee often openly criticised Loke, despite MCA only having two seats in Parliament.
"MCA's role in Parliament remains as a ‘check and balance’ in the democratic system.
“After all, at this point, there are no MPs of Chinese descent from the opposition bloc to provide checks and balances,” he said.
“If not MCA, who else? Whatever the government's good policies that benefit the people, MCA will support them 100 percent, while for policies that harm the common people, MCA feels the need to speak up even though DAP looks down on the only two MCA representatives in the Dewan Rakyat,” he added.
Further, Wee said he had gained support from Sarawak deputy premier Dr Sim Kui Hian, as well as DAP's Bandar Kuching MP Kelvin Yii, when he recently spoke up against a policy that all forms of alternative medicine services regulated by the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Act 2016 are subject to the six percent Sales and Service Tax.
In the interview, Kok said Wee often openly criticised Loke, despite MCA only having two seats in Parliament.
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