MCA: Why PKR, DAP shying away from Malay-majority seats?
(Berita Daily) – MCA’s publicity bureau chairman Senator Chai Kim Sen today questioned why PKR and DAP leaders were avoiding Malay majority seats after claiming that the Malay tsunami would take place during the 14th general election on May 9.
Chai speculated that the reason for that was because there would not be a shift of the Malay voters for the opposition parties.
“This begs the question if they already know that here will be no Malay tsunami as certain Pakatan Harapan leaders have claimed,” said Chai in a statement.
“If there is going to be a Malay tsunami as they claimed, shouldn’t these PKR and DAP leaders be rushing to those seats with more Malay voters in order to ride the wave of the tsunami instead of staying away?”
He said this based on incumbent Batu MP Tian Chua’s refusal to contest in Johor. Another PKR leader A Xavier Jayakumar too complained about his Andalas state seat which has been renamed as Sungai Kandis.
”Yesterday, PKR’s Tian Chua admitted that he was hesitant to contest in Johor in the seats of Tebrau and Ledang which have more Malay voters although Pakatan has declared Johor as the key battleground state.
“At the same time, PKR’s Xavier Jayakumar was forced to move seats after he said that his current Sungai Kandis seat in Selangor has now got more Malays after the redelineation.”
The trend is also the same in the DAP, Chai observed.
“Similarly, DAP’s Tony Pua does not want to go to Bentong in Pahang while Gobind Singh, Teoh Nie Ching and Boo Cheng Hau were hesitant to be re-deployed to other seats in Johor which have a greater population of Malay voters.
“Even Lim Kit Siang, the DAP parliamentary leader, continues to advocate the so-called Malay tsunami.
“However, when Umno incumbent Johor Baru MP Shahrir Abdul Samad challenged the DAP stalwart many times to contest in Johor Baru, Kit Siang repeatedly evaded a response.
“Finally, his son Lim Guan Eng who is also the secretary general of DAP, announced that Kit Siang will defend Gelang Patah, now known as Iskandar Puteri,” said Chai.
