本文引用自: 拿督斯里蔡细历医生网站 drchua9.blogspot.com
Last night I was invited to NTV 7 live for English, Mandarin and Malay news. For the Chinese version, I once again emphasized that I’ve not decided to contest any post. I need to gauge the support from members and second, whether I can contribute to reform and rebuilding of MCA. As to the actual day when I can make announcement, I have no idea.
Of course one of the questions thrown is whether the dvd will affect support for me. I said that there are 2 schools of thought. One that I should be evaluated on performance, the other is that my private life should also be taken into consideration. [read more...]
When this dvd issue first appeared, I consulted my President 3 times, Prime Minister 2 times and Deputy Prime Minister 1 time and I told them very clearly that I admit, apologize and pick up from there. I then resigned from all my party and government posts. If there is any comfort after I resign is that my family and my wife stood solidly with me. I am also encouraged that after my resignation, I continue to receive invitation to attend functions both within the party and NGOs.
In this context, I must thank DAP leaders, Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng who openly said that during the election period they will not use the dvd issue against me because this is a private matter. Some even said my son’s victory is a vindication since I was campaigning on his behalf.
After my resignation, I have 2 options, whether I should:
1) Wallow in self pity and bitterness; or
2) Continue to use my experience and optimize my strength to do what I have been doing for the last 23 years; serve the party and the community.
I want to move forward. I hope my party members will give me a chance. I believe that my political destiny should be decided by MCA members. I will not let my “friends” within the party continue to pull me down with the dvd. There are strong forces at work to ensure I am marginalized in the party. Well, this is all part of politics. Meanwhile, I will not use personal attack against my colleague and I will let my political destiny to be decided by MCA members.
昨晚， 我受邀上NTV7华语、马来语以及英语新闻。能连续上3个新闻时段，真的让我有点受宠若惊。当然，访谈离不开马华党选。在华语新闻时段里，我再次强调目前我还未决定要在党选竞选什么高职。理由是，我需要：
1．探测基层的意向
2．衡量自己的能力，是否能协助马华的重建工作
至于什么时候会表态，我真的还未有任何头绪。
三个主播也分别问我，是否担心偷拍光碟的事会影响我参选。我说，基层们有两种评价：一方认为应从工作表现评估我；一方坚持评估准则必须包括我的私人生活。事情发生时，我会见和咨询了我党总会长三次，首相两次及副首相一次，由始至终我都坚持要公开承认及承担一切后果。我也随即辞去所有官职和党职。让我觉得安慰的是，妻子和家人一直陪伴我走过低潮，支持我鼓励我。辞职后，我仍然受邀出席党内和非政府组织活动，大家的不离不弃是我最大的鼓舞。当然，我也要感谢行动党两位领袖林吉祥和林冠英，公开表明这是私事，拒绝利用光碟事件来功击对手争取选票。
辞官后，我该如何生活？我应该沉溺于失意、沮丧和自我怜悯？还是运用我过去23年来累积的经验，结合我的长处继续为我党及华社服务？
我选择后者。我希望党员们能可以给我一个机会。既然我是马华一份子，那我的政治命运应该由马华党员来决定。我选择了面对，不逃避问题、不掩盖错误；我要向前看、向前走，即使党内已经出现一股围堵我的力量，确保我被边缘化。这就是政治。不过，我不会让党内的“有心人”，利用光碟事件对我再度展开政治谋杀，我的政治命运只由党员决定。
他们对我人身攻击，但我不会如此对待我的党同志。
I also took the opportunity to impress upon the members that post 308 election, it is not business as usual. The likely emergence of 2 party system creates a healthy environment of competition and offers rakyat a choice. Political parties have to be competitive in order to survive. Expectation of the rakyat and the Chinese community are high. While we have a good service centre functioning, people expect MCA to deliver more than just looking after longkang, garbage and hawker license. MCA cannot continue to sing old tune of voting for MCA and BN to ensure social and political stability.
In order to reform MCA to gain the confidence of Chinese community cannot be dependent on one person. It has to be teamwork. It has to be joint effort of every committed member. It cannot be dependent on empty slogans and false promise. We not only talk but we have to deliver what we promise. It is not going to be an easy job since there is a lot of skepticism towards MCA and also towards the government. We have lost the credibility of the Chinese community and rakyat Malaysia. It is up to us to rebuild the party so that we can restore confidence, our integrity and credibility. Hence, MCA will continue to dedicate itself to help the Chinese community in economic development, competitiveness, Chinese education, culture but not withstanding that it should always be issue-centric rather than all just Chinese. MCA should also be more assertive to ensure government improvement on implementation of government policies so that it could be more fair, transparent and democratic. Hence, educational issue, religious issue and economic opportunity should be resolved without having to bag and petition the government. We also need to monitor the performance of Pakatan Rakyat controlled state government to ensure that they deliver their promises. In these days, we function as opposition members in PR controlled states. Of course I know that this is not going to be easy because we have been in power for the last 50 years and we may not be able to function effectively as an opposition but more as the power in government. There is also the need to maintain the social networking and the goodwill of NGO and Chinese based associations.
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