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Saw Yee Fung joined MCA in 2014.
She survived three general elections with the party through its worst years.
She campaigned in Johor, telling voters face-to-face that Barisan Nasional (BN) would never work with PAS.
Then one day, BN announced a seat-sharing arrangement with Perikatan Nasional — the coalition that PAS anchors — for the Negeri Sembilan state election.
Nobody told her it was coming.
Saw, who serves as MCA Youth secretary-general, claimed she went to the place most party members go when they have questions: the central committee WhatsApp group; she typed out her concerns and waited, but nobody replied.
Not the party president, not the secretary-general, not a single acknowledgement — not even a “we’ll discuss this when the boss is back.”
So she went to Facebook instead.
The Question She Asked
Her post was not a resignation letter.
It was not an attack; it was, at its core, a single question:
How do you ask voters to trust MCA as a check against PAS while quietly sharing seats with PAS’s coalition?
She was careful to separate the personal from the political.
She acknowledged that MCA president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong was in London when she first raised the issue internally, and that she respected the democratic right to disagree.
What she could not accept was the silence.
MCA Wanted It Private, Saw Made It Public
MCA secretary-general Datuk Chong Sin Woon’s response arrived not in the central committee group, not in a press statement, not in a phone call.
It came as a private WhatsApp message.
“对，森州州选妳不需要来。谢谢”
Yes, Negeri Sembilan state election — you don’t need to come. Thank you.
Sent at 4:58 PM, she screenshotted it and posted it publicly; Chong later clarified the decision was not his personally — it was the party’s, in line with BN’s electoral arrangement.
At the time of writing, the post has received 9,100 likes.
Saw posted her grievance the night before nomination day.
By the following morning, UMNO’s secretary-general, Datuk Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki and the PAS president, Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang, were shaking hands for the cameras at the Jempol nomination centre — the same election Saw had been told not to attend.
The Party’s Explanation
Wee has since clarified the arrangement; MCA has not signed any political agreement with PAS.
The seat-sharing deal is strictly a local electoral strategy — BN contests 25 seats, PN handles the remaining 11, with no overlapping candidacies to split the vote.
He urged voters worried about PAS’s growing influence to vote for MCA — arguing that a stronger MCA inside the government is a more effective counterbalance than one sitting in opposition.
The logic is not without merit.
But it runs directly into a problem Saw has named clearly: she spent the Johor campaign telling voters the opposite.
Saw has not resigned; she says she still loves the party, but she ended her post with a question that no WhatsApp message can answer.
What happened to the MCA that could tolerate different voices?
READ MORE: MCA Youth Sec-Gen: “I Told Johor No PAS”, Then BN Did It Anyway
READ MORE: Negeri Sembilan Nomination Day: The Battle Is On
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