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GE 14

Can Chua Tee Yong, son of Chua Soi Lek, retain P142 Labis?

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Chua Tee Yong, son of Chua Soi Lek, won P142 Labis by 353 votes, down from 4,094 votes in GE 12.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Malaysian_general_election,_2013_by_parliamentary_constituency#Johor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Malaysian_general_election,_2008_by_parliamentary_constituency#Johor

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Pre GE 13

Chua Tee Yong is defending the Labis seat in Johor which his father, Chua Soi Lek, vacated following the latter’s sex scandal in 2008.

Labis is the second largest town in the district of Segamat, Johor, Malaysia.

Even though Labis is a Chinese-majority seat, the town has an Indian population of 15 percent, the highest of all parliamentary constituencies in Johor. The Chinese population is 46 percent and Malays make up 36 percent.

P142 Labis

Voters 37,787       Chinese 46%     Malay 36%     Indian 15% 

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Malaysiakini

ANALYSIS JOHOR While all eyes are on DAP’s heavyweights who have descended on the MCA bastions in southern Johor, one parliamentary constituency in the north – which represents over two decades of MCA’s legacy – appears to have been overlooked.

The Labis parliamentary seat was held by two MCA presidents for 22 years, namely Dr Ling Liong Sik and Dr Chua Soi Lek, in succession since 1986 before the baton was passed on to the latter’s son – Tee Yong.

However, Labis had fallen off the radar as it was the odd one out where DAP only announced its challenger there on April 19 – the eve of nomination day – in the form of former senator S Ramakrishnan.

According to party sources, the DAP central leadership had wanted to place its own choice there but gave in after the state leadership convinced them that Ramakrishnan would be most suited to capture the MCA stronghold.
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Unlike other constituencies where the anti-government sentiment among the Chinese is at record levels, MCA’s long history in Labis means that the community here, especially the elderly who are staunch MCA supporters, are less likely to be swayed.

This was seen as Chua hit the streets during his walkabout in Bekok yesterday, backed by almost 50 older men and women from the Chinese community who were in BN t-shirts.
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Sources within Chua’s campaign team acknowledged that the winds of change are strong and MCA must maintain its Chinese support above 30 percent or the chance of retaining Labis would be bleak.

In the 2008 general election, the BN got slightly more than 40 percent of votes in the polling district of Bandar Labis Tengah which has the largest Chinese population. This fell to about 30 percent during the Tenang by-election, bucking the trend by other communities.

With the anti-establishment trends expected to be even stronger now, this may not bode well for MCA in trying to maintain the Chinese support above 30 percent.

Battle for Labis: MCA legacy on Chua Jr’s shoulders

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Malaysiakini

DAY 3What’s happening during the election campaigns around the country today? Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidents as they take place.
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8.06pm – Labis – Looks like BN candidate Chua Tee Yong is not having a good campaign day.

Police ordered his team to move his ceramah stage at Bekok because it was too near a road.

However, just as his team finished re-assembling the stage at another location, the sky opens up.

“See, it is not only the opposition that get harassed. In fact DAP’s ceramah in Labis yesterday was not stopped even though they did not have a permit, but we are stopped.

“It seems that not only the authorities are against us, the weather is also against us,” said Chua, in jest.

Tee Yong: Cops ‘harassing’ us – Malaysiakini

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Chua Tee Yong, son of Chua Soi Lek….

Chua, whose race-based party’s sole support base is the Chinese community, attacked a rival candidate accusing him of racism against Indians.

Chua’s claim of racism is however ironic, given that S Ramakrishnan, who is standing against him in Labis, is an Indian himself.

The DAP candidate had apparently said that his community would not be bought by MCA’s “Guinness Stout and mutton curry”, believed to be referring to MCA’s many free open concerts where plenty of food and free-flowing booze is served.

Sensing PR victory, MCA’s Chua Jr eager to know new PM

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had the opportunity to have lunch with Chua Tee Yong (CTY, hereafter) before I joined the DAP. I was grateful for this opportunity given that I had already written a few less than complementary articles about his father, Dr Chua Soi Lek, in his capacity as MCA president. I wanted to meet up with him because I had been somewhat impressed by the manner in which he handled himself in parliament. He was articulate in his parliamentary replies and he responded coolly and calmly to the supplementary questions thrown his way. I thought that this MCA leader, in his capacity as the chairman of his party’s Young Professionals Bureau, could raise the overall level of political discourse by attracting more qualified young people to be engaged in the political landscape. I never thought that less than a year later, he would instead drown in a puddle of his own making, snuffing out whatever little hope his party had of rejuvenation and regeneration. The cause of CTY’s massive loss of what credibility he may have had is well known – the so-called RM1 billion Talam ‘scandal’. When he first announced this ‘scandal’, many of us in the opposition were worried that he had actually uncovered an issue that could potentially sink the Pakatan government in Selangor. He displayed tremendous confidence which we now know was actually ignorance masked by cockiness. The utter baselessness of his accusations has been exposed by my colleagues in Pakatan. I don’t need to go into the details here except to say that he has been faulting the Pakatan Selangor state government for trying to retrieve debts owed to the state, something which the BN federal government has failed to do time and time again because of ‘obligations’ to cronies such as those behind the PKFZ scandal, the NFC scandal, the MAS bailout, and a long list of other real scandals. The public at large, with access to alternative sources of information, have also figured out that CTY is barking and continues to bark up the wrong tree, especially after the recent release by the Selangor state government of the Talam White Paper.
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Not that I should be complaining. CTY’s antics are definitely helping convince the voting public that the BN, especially MCA, is a lost cause. But from a perspective of someone who thinks that raising the level of political discourse and increasing meaningful youth participation in politics on both sides of the political divide is a positive and necessary step for the country, CTY’s inability to take advantage of his privileged position is very disappointing indeed.

Ong Kian Ming
DAP Election Strategist

This article was published by The Malaysian Insider.

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