The MCA President is on the move yet again in tightening his grip. He now requires all bureau chiefs to seek prior endorsement from the presidential council before issuing press releases. {Read here} Seeking endorsement from the presidential council means seeking his approval la, as the council is made up of his yes-men.
His move is clearly targeted at the more outspoken and speaking-his-mind deputy president, Chua Soi Lek, whose ideas are always not in line with the President's thinking. It simply shows Tee Keat's low level of tolerance for different view points. Meaning he can't accept differences. Soi Lek, unlike others, has his own mind and does not hold back.
After his "historic" victory, instead of closing ranks, he enhanced the divide by sidelining Soi Lek and Ong Ka Chuan. Naming Ka Chuan as the party's history and documentation bureau chief is a joke but not making Chua Soi Lek as a state party chief and the party disciplinary chief is insulting the party's closely-observed tradition. Never mind if Tee Keat has no respect for Soi Lek (for his foray in the sexual rendevous) or his position as the party No. 2, but don't forget that Soi Lek was chosen by the grassroots. And the grassroots have their ways to get back at anybody not in their good book.
Could his move revives the Team A and Team B rivalry?
It's too early to conclude but Soi Lek-Jui Meng-Ka Chuan could form a formidable trio for Tee Keat to content with.
That's worrying. It does not augur well for MCA which is now graping for breadth after a disasterous outing in the March'08 general election.
If Tee Keat, while fulfiling his own personal agenda continues to run the party with All The President's Men, by the next elections, MCA may suffer the fate that befall its half-brother, Gerakan.
1 comment:
It seems that Tee Keat is no different from the others.
That's politics. You want your own people - who would support you always - by your side, wouldn't you?
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