Dr Wee: MCA to stay in Barisan

KUALA LUMPUR: The MCA has decided to stay in Barisan Nasional, says party president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
 
He read out a statement by the central committee, after a five-hour meeting at the party headquarters here on Sunday afternoon (March 17).
 
"MCA must do all it can to safeguard the multiracial premise within Barisan, to prevent race relations to tilt towards Malays against non Malays," he told a press conference here.
 
The decision to stay on in Barisan came after the three-party coalition - Umno, MCA and MIC - did not arrive at a consensus on a resolution to dissolve the coalition and forge new alliances at a Barisan supreme council meeting here on March 8.
 
The resolution to dissolve Barisan was adopted at the MCA annual general assembly on Dec 2 last year.
 
Dr Wee tabled the resolution at the Barisan meeting, chaired by Barisan deputy chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan, and attended by MIC president Tan Sri S.A. Vigneswaran.
 
The Barisan constitution requires a consensus for the dissolution.