MCA will do its best to help Umno win the Mahkota by-election in return for its coalition partner’s help in the Tanjung Piai by-election in 2019, says Dr Wee Ka Siong.

The MCA president said Umno will field a candidate in Mahkota and MCA will do its best to help the candidate.

“This is the Barisan Nasional spirit. The Umno machinery previously helped MCA’s Datuk Seri Dr Wee Jeck Seng win the Tanjung Piai parliamentary seat.

“We are now hoping that the ‘Tanjung Piai spirit’ will be translated to a win in Mahkota,” he said after launching the Johor MCA Youth and Wanita wings convention in Pontian, yesterday.

While MCA has its own campaign strategy, Dr Wee said the party will follow the instructions of Barisan’s by-election director, Johor Mentri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi.

In the Tanjung Piai by-election, Jeck Seng emerged the winner with 25,466 votes in a six-cornered fight, with a majority of 15,086 votes against his closest rival, Pakatan Harapan’s Karmaine Sardini who got 10,380 votes.

Meanwhile, Dr Wee added that Johor executive councillor Lee Ting Han will be leading the party’s state machinery in the by-election, set for Sept 28.