KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai today thanked Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem for leading Barisan Nasional (BN) to a stunning victory in the Sarawak state elections yesterday.
He said the win, which saw the ruling pact returned to power with 72 of 82 seats in the state legislative assembly, shows that the state’s Chinese voters have left the opposition for BN.
“There is also an increase in Chinese voters supporting us and this shows that the community is trusting BN once again.
“For this, MCA must congratulate Adenan for his ability to win back seats that were previously under DAP and the oppositions,” he told a press conference at Wisma MCA.
The transport minister added that the people of Sarawak were also now aware of the oppositions’ true colours.
“DAP and PKR have been dishing out all sorts promises but never fulfilled them and then they go ahead and contest with each other in several seats.
“This goes to show that they are only interested in their own party matters,” he said.
Liow noted that the victory in Sarawak was a good sign for the coalition to move forward in the same momentum for the next general elections.
BN soared to an easy victory yesterday, taking 72 seats out of 82, more seats even than the 71 that made up the Sarawak legislative assembly five years ago.
Sarawak-based SUPP (Sarawak United People’s Party) won seven of the 13 seats it contested, an improvement from 2011 when it managed to just win six constituencies out of 19, losing many of its contested seats to the DAP.”
PKR won three out of the 40 seats it contested while DAP only secured seven from the 31 seats, five seats fewer than the 12 it won in 2011. Amanah failed to secure a single seat.
