MCA's GREATER UNITY PLAN

The high turnout for the 'coming home dinner' at Wisma MCA on the night before the special briefing organised on 15th. November, 2009 by MCA gave a clear indication of the good response from the MCA grassroots leaders that the majority of the leaders welcome and agreed to the Greater Unity Plan proposed by MCA Central Committee members. I am sure both the President and the Deputy President were obviously happy and smiling when they saw the thunderous applause from the grassroots leaders when they made their entry to the dining hall at Dewan San Choon. There were much hand shaking by both the top leaders as they moved from one table to another table to welcome the grassroots leaders. There was much camaraderie and goodwill amongst them by the body language and back slabbing amongst the Party comrades. At long last,they could see the light after the tunnel after one year of bitter infighting between two dynamite personalities with opposing views and strong personalities. The was unceasing applause when the President and the Deputy President went to the stage to give the brief welcoming speeches to the grassroots leaders. This shows the grassroots leaders gave their approval to the Greater Unity Plan a chance to work for the betterment of the Party.
A total of 155 out of the 191 Divisions, accounting more than 70 % or 620 grassroots leaders attended this Special Briefing organised by the Deputy President Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek on 15th. November, 2009. The delegates consisted of the Division Chairmen, their Deputies and Secretaries as well as the Divisional Youth and Wanita Chairmen.
Datuk Seri Dr. Chua chaired the Briefing and the the meeting was opened to the floor to further deliberate the agendas of the briefing. First and foremost, is the special allocations to be given out at the beginning of next year to all the Division so that they could organise various activities for the benefit of the communities and others in order to win back support from the people after the worst electoral election on 8th. March, 2008. An allocation of RM 50,000.00 to be given to the large Division with ADUN's or MP's but without State Exco / Minister /Deputy Minister inclusive of RM 8,000.00 to the Youth Wing and RM 8,000.00 to the Wanita Wing. The medium size Division will get an allocation of RM 30,000.00 inclusive of RM 5,000.00 to Youth Wing and RM 5,000.00 to Wanita Wing. The smaller Division will get an allocation of RM 10,000. inclusive of RM 1,000.00 for Youth Wing and RM 1,000.00 for Wanita Wing.
Dr. Chua told the grassroots leaders that the fresh elections might be held six months to a year after the unity plan had been fully implemented and the Party more stable. The majority of the Party grassroots leaders gave the assurance that they would not attend the illegal EGM on the 28th. November, 2009. This is in line with the stand adopted by the Party's top leadership. The briefing also discussed direct presidential elections, CC, the State and Deputy Chairmen and the preparation of the coming General Election. A task force will be set up to further look into the details and further deliberations will be discussed at the CC on 18th. November, 2009.
Most of the grassroots leaders came out of the meeting with a positive assurance that the tragic Party infighting will become a thing in the past and they could look forward with greater assurances that the Party will come out stronger and resilient to face the electoral during the next coming General Election.