DAP's Chong Zhemin has publicly challenged MCA over its silence regarding racial remarks made by Perikatan Nasional election director Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor. According to Free Malaysia Today, the Kampar MP highlighted that MIC President Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran had already condemned the remarks despite Barisan Nasional's electoral cooperation with PN in the Negeri Sembilan state election. Chong questioned MCA President Wee Ka Siong's absence of voice when Malaysian Chinese are told that China is supposedly their country, emphasizing that MCA's response would reflect the party's position on the matter.