KUALA LUMPUR: MCA secretary-general Datuk Chong Sin Woon announced that the party’s central committee had decided not to take part in the coming six state elections.

Instead, he said the party would focus on the next general election.

“However, MCA would fulfill its obligations as a component party of Barisan Nasional to assist the candidates of BN component parties in the coming state elections,” he said in a statement today.