PELABUHAN KLANG, March 20 – Almost 70 per cent of the MCA candidates in Selangor for the 13th general election will be young faces, said Selangor MCA chairman Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai(Pic). He also said that the party was confident of winning seven of the 14 state constituency seats and three of the seven Parliamentary seats in the state.
In the 2008 general election, the MCA won two state seats namely Kuala Kubu Baru and Sungai Pelek and only one Parliamentary seat, namely Pandan in Selangor. Lim said the party’s confidence in winning more seats this time was due to the greater confidence placed by the Chinese community in the Barisan Nasional (BN) under the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
“The Chinese voters’ support (for the BN) appeared to have increased after the Chinese New Year celebrations,” he told reporters in Pulau Ketam, near here after opening the Polling District Centre at the fishing village and also at Sungai Lima.
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