Lim Ban Hong Tan Teik Cheng Wee Jeck Seng Lawrence Low
Women Chief
Wong You Fong
Youth Chief
Ling Tian Soon
Founder
Tan Cheng Lock
Founded
27 February 1949
Preceded by
Malayan Chinese Association
Headquarters
8th Floor, Wisma MCA, 163, Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur
Newspaper
China Press The Star Nanyang Siang Pau Sin Chew Daily
Youth wing
MCA Youth Section
Women's wing
Wanita MCA
Ideology
Malaysian Chinese interests Social conservatism Tridemism Historical:
Chinese nationalism
Political position
Centre-right[1]
National affiliation
Alliance (1952–1973) Barisan Nasional (since 1973) Allied coalitions: Perikatan Nasional (2020–2022) Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (since 2020) Alliance Government with PH-BN-GPS-GRS-Warisan (since November 2022)
Colours
Blue and yellow
Dewan Negara:
3 / 70
Dewan Rakyat:
2 / 222
Dewan Undangan Negeri:
7 / 606
Party flag
Website
www.mca.org.my
Politics of Malaysia
Political parties
Elections
The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA; Chinese: 马来西亚华人公会; Malay: Persatuan Cina Malaysia; Tamil: மலேசிய சீனர் சங்கம், initially known as the Malayan Chinese Association) is a uni-racial political party in Malaysia that seeks to represent the Malaysian Chinese ethnicity; it was one of the three original major component parties of the coalition party in Malaysia called the Alliance Party, which later became a broader coalition called Barisan Nasional in Malay, or National Front in English.
Along with the largest and third largest component party in BN, i.e. United Malays National Organisation and Malaysian Indian Congress, MCA has a significant influence over the political arena in Malaysia since its independence. Through its holding of companies such as Huaren Holdings, MCA controls The Star, which is Malaysia's best-selling English newspaper.[2][3]
The party was once the largest party representing the Chinese community in Malaysia, and was particularly dominant in the early period until the late 1960s. Its fortunes fluctuated after the establishment of other political parties in the 1960s that challenged it for the Chinese votes, although it still enjoyed strong support in the mid-1990s to mid-2000s period. However, it has performed poorly in elections since 2008, with the Malaysian Chinese community mostly voting for the Democratic Action Party and People's Justice Party,[4] and in the 2018 Malaysian general election, it lost all but one of its parliamentary seats and was relegated to the opposition.[5] It returned to power in March 2020 as part of the alliance with Perikatan Nasional,[6]. After the 2022 election, the party joined the government as a backbencher with Barisan Nasional supporting Pakatan Harapan.[7]
^J Denis Derbyshire; Ian Derbyshire (1990). Political Systems Of The World. Allied Publishers. p. 118. ISBN 978-81-7023-307-7.
^"A cash cow for Huaren". TheEdge. 23 March 2009.
^Loghun Kumaran (25 June 2018). "With about RM3b in assets, MCA unlikely to fade away soon". Malay Mail.
^"Thirteenth General Elections (GE13): Chinese votes and Implications on Malaysian Politics" (PDF). Kajian Malaysia. 32 (supp. 2): 25–53. 2014.
^"Racial politics: where it all went wrong for the Malaysian Chinese Association?". Asia One. 4 March 2019.
^Ng, Eileen. "MCA hopes to moderate new govt but needs to win voter trust". The Straits Times.
^Nur Hasliza Mohd Salleh (21 December 2022). "Pua's jibe shows MCA's role as 'opposition' in BN, says analyst". Malaysia Now.
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