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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Malaysia's new Prime Minister Anhua was invited to appear in the Spring Festival group worship in the Malaysia Association to fish with a group of MCA leaders. It is said that the atmosphere at the scene was happy.In a broad sense, since the epidemic of the crown disease, all sectors of the Ma Guohua News Agency have been unrestrained to celebrate the Chinese New Year.More specifically, this scene also symbolizes MCA's political life to a certain extent.

MCA has become a member of the Governor's Alliance since the independence of Malaysia. Not only does it have representatives of ministers in the cabinet, but there are many seats in Congress. They are the general representative of the Chinese political forces in Malaysia.However, after 2008, MCA's political forces were greatly replaced by the Democratic Party, which was originally in the wild.In the 2018 election, a national meeting was lost, and the Barisan Nasional of the Party Alliance also lost the Pakatan Harapan that the Federal Political Governance to the Democratic Party.However, in less than two years, in the setting of Sheraton's coup, most of the Pakatan Harapan members of the Turkish Mission Party and some members of the Justice Party of the Pakatan Harapan main party, instead cooperated with the BN and Islamic Party in the wild at the time to form a new new and new party to a new new new party to a new new and new party to a new new new party to a new new party to a new new party to a new new party to a new new new party.National League Government.MCA, which belongs to the Barisan Nasional, has also become one of the ruling parties with joining this joint government.

At the end of last year, Malaysia's latest election, MCA's performance was not satisfactory again.A few days after the election, MCA may think that the BN, especially UMNO, will still cooperate with the National League as in the past two years to re -organize a governance alliance.Therefore, even if the Iraqi Party has won nearly a quarter of the National Conference seats and most of the Malaysians are afraid of the Iraqi party to come to power, and the Iraqi Party is even more unscrupulous to promote the religious political agenda.Leading new government.

Unexpectedly, the situation changes in a few days. Although it is lost to multiple seats, it is still a key minority Barisan Nasional. Under the leadership of UMNO, I chose to support the Pakatan Harapan that has won the most (but half). MCAAn Hua, who had to change to support the Pakatan Harapan as the Prime Minister, has become a member of the new coalition government. It is also considered "governing" again, but it has not been divided into any cabinet position.Therefore, Anwarken attended the MCA worship, which is a kind of goodwill, and brings a line of hope to MCA.I don't know if Anwar will have other political appointments to MCA, so that MCA will be born.

Ma Guo Chinese voters have invested votes to the Democratic Party and Justice Party, etc. at the past few elections for nearly 95%, and only a few are voted for MCA, who claims to represent Chinese political interests.This is mainly because after decades, most Chinese voters have gradually produced stereotypes, thinking that MCA has forgotten the original intention of fighting for the rights of Chinese.Political parties focusing on the distribution of political interests for party members are not worthy of supporting the support of ethnic equality.

Although in the face of the danger of gradually foaming, MCA's political forces still cannot be ignored. It also has a huge party property of at least one billion yuan.Opportunity.

Standing in Anwar's position, attending the MCA New Year's Eve meeting, and the MCA veterans who had known him when he was still in UMNO, it made everyone happy.On the one hand, the united government led by Anwar, although claiming to have the support of more than two -thirds of members of the Congress, but it is still extremely fragile, so each member of the support for him is very important.MCA, who has two parliamentarians, has two hearts, but if Anhua rewarded his face to attend the event, he could strengthen their support. Why not do it?

On the other hand, the close interaction between Anwar and MCA is also regarded as a means of political balance in the People's Bank of China to a certain extent.The seats won by the DPP party are actually a lot more than the Youshi Party in the Pakatan Harapan and the Justice Party led by Anwar.However, after the selection, the DPP deliberately chose to maintain a low -key. Even the minister in Anwar Cabinet was much less than the Justice Party, mainly to avoid the rebound of Malay voters, so as not to trigger the recreation of the Cervical Coup.

However, Anwar has to prevent the Democratic Party strictly prevent the DPP one day.At present, it seems that the DPP does not seem to be upside -down to cooperate with religious extremes and race supremacy.Anhua attended the MCA's worship. The DPP did not have peers. It could also be interpreted as a statement that the two parties were currently belonging to the same line, but there was no statement that was completely integrated.

Just a few days ago, the Pakatan Harapan government announced that it would resume allocation to La Man University of Technology, and MCA and the DPP leaders attended the ceremony.Decades ago, the Barisan Nasional Government implemented the policy of priority to the public university, which led many non -indigenous students to fail to further studies. Then MCA launched the establishment of the Raman College at that time (upgraded into a university) at that time.The land is given every year to maintain it.

After the Pakatan Harapan came to power for the first time a few years ago, it was believed that Raman was essentially manipulated by MCA and transferred the money to the alumni association instead of the school.Chinese voters pointed their finger to the People's Bank of China.This time, the government's funding is re -transferred to the Raman school, and both parties can get credit.MCA claims to stay in the government to strive for re -funding success.Understanding.However, whether these two hostile political parties can cooperate in the short term to maintain the Anwar government, it is another matter.

In a series of state elections, the Chinese constituencies campaign of the Pakatan Harapan should be sent to the battlefield, and it is immediately a controversial issue.Because these constituencies were mostly defeated by the Democratic Party's party and won, the DPP naturally did not give up.However, MCA also has grass -roots organizations in many types of constituencies, and grassroots leaders are naturally dissatisfied and have not been able to run for campaign.If MCA does not fight for some campaign opportunities, it is bound to be more marginalized.How to negotiate between the two parties will not hurt and be angry, which will be a major test of the political wisdom of both parties, and it will determine that the Malaysian country will be the political trend of the multi -ethnic group or the monarchy of the one.

The author is the Singapore International Affairs Society

(Research) Senior Researcher

Chief Counselor of the Malaysian Pacific Research Center