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Malaysia has been going after the Chinese for their lack of support for
BN, leading to its recent banner headline ‘Apa lagi Cina mau?’ — File
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23 — Nearly three weeks after Election 2013, politicians and
businessmen returning from Putrajaya speak of a dejected atmosphere
there with Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders thinking and talking in terms
of betrayal of the Chinese and non-Malays in Malaysia’s latest polls.Many believe that these leaders should stop thinking or talking so, because it poisons the post-election discourse. In coffee-houses and boardrooms, the chattering classes say such talk will further split a country already divided by class and income.
They point to several snap analyses that show that most of the voters cast their ballots largely marked by national issues, location, income levels, age groups rather than the simplistic view that a “Chinese tsunami” further eroded BN’s support.
“There are leaders who are in a group think mode, amplifying among themselves that the Chinese betrayed BN, not the other races. They still think in terms of race,” said a politician returning from the Prime Minister’s Department in Putrajaya.
“The Chinese deserted the MCA more than anything else, due to ideological reasons, not because of race,” he added.
The MCA, an original founding member of the Alliance that was later replaced by BN in 1974, only won seven of the 37 federal seats it contested in the May 5 general election. It had won 15 in Election 2008.
The poor results led to the party sitting out of the Cabinet that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced on May 15, leaving only Transparency International Malaysia president Datuk Paul Low as the only Chinese there.
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