MCA is at crossroads now. Its president has the unenviable task of resurrecting his career and making MCA a viable force again.
There is nothing certain in the Malaysian political landscape anymore. And that applies to the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) as well. Once the bastion of the Chinese voters and riding high, it is now back on terra firma.
Come the next general election, what is in store for Dr Chua Soi Lek and his party, nobody can tell.
Chua, a practising psychiatrist, now turned politician and health minister from 2004 to 2008, has always chartered his own future despite all the odds stacked against him.