Nazri says no to zero Chinese representation in government

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 A comparison Umno apportion has spoken which he would fight tooth as well as spike to safeguard Chinese illustration in a Barisan Nasional (BN) supervision even if a MCA or Gerakan fails to secure a singular parliamentary seat in a entrance polls.

Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz told The Malaysian Insider which BN would not retaliate a Chinese electorate by simply yanking their member from Cabinet posts if they refused to vote for a dual Chinese-centric member parties.

Nazri assured a Chinese of illustration in a BN supervision even yet you am a nobody in Umno... not even a vice-president. File pic

While admitting which a matter would not be his to decide, a apportion in a Prime Ministers Department gave his word which he would hold up this cause to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak should such a incident arise when a bloc retains a government.

I wish to discuss it a Chinese electorate which BN is a multi-racial supervision as well as regardless of a outcome of a elections, you will always have a Chinese deputy in Cabinet. you wish to contend this with faith even yet you am a nobody in Umno... not even a vice-president.

But if it should come to that, you will do my really best to persuade a PM which you should not have a singular communal government. The complement allows us to appoint senators as well as you need to have member of a non-Malay community, he said.

Nazri recalled which such a promise was done by a countrys longest-serving budding apportion Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad during his reign in government.

I recollect back when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was PM... he told Cabinet which even if you come to a stage where MCA or Gerakan loses in all parliamentary seats, you cannot form a Malay government.

We cannot be a singular communal supervision as it simple goes against a suggestion as well as policy of BN. We cannot ret! aliate a s well as penalise a section of a village just since they do not support BN, he said.

Nazri was recalling a oath done by MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek several months ago when a former Cabinet apportion pronounced he would lift his celebration from a supervision if it performs worse than it did in Election 2008.

Dr Chua initial mooted a thought when he urged a Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP) not to join a Sarawak Cabinet after it usually won six of a 19 seats it contested in a April sixteen state polls.

He later pronounced a MCA would do a same, regulating a 2008 formula as a benchmark. Should MCA destroy to win at least fifteen parliamentary as well as 31 state seats, pledged Dr Chua, a celebration will not accept any Cabinet posts in a subsequent government.

Nazri likened this to a threat to a Chinese community, lamenting which many of his racial Chinese friends had approached him with complaints.

You contingency ask a Chinese community, not me, if they feel threatened. But most of my Chinese friends feel in jeopardy as well as you do not wish a Chinese electorate to feel this way. In whatever circumstances, you will not take revenge on any shred of a community, he said.

Nazri pronounced it was unlikely which Najib would allow 0 illustration from a Chinese village in government, indicating to how a budding apportion himself had allocated Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon as well as MIC president Datuk G. Palanivel as senators in his Cabinet.

So you am actually observant this formed on Najibs actions alone. Do not forget which even if you lose a seats, perhaps in conditions of renouned votes, 51 per cent of Chinese votes went to a opposition... so what about a remaining 49 per cent? We cannot retaliate them, he said.

BN member parties have been now busy compiling their candidate lists as Najib had recently signalled a bloc to hope for for a subsequent general choosing before a charge expires in 2013.