KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai urged the party's leadership to allow delegates to debate resolutions, including the proposal to amend party constitution, to be tabled at the party's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 7.

He said the delegates had the rights to debate the proposal before the Central Committee (CC), the party's decision-making body, make its decision.

"The delegates have sent in their resolutions so it should be tabled and debated at the AGM.

"This is not an amendment to party constitution... it is just a proposal to amend the party constitution; so it can be debated and then the AGM can decide on it and the CC can relook into it and make a decision," he told a news conference after attending the Wangsa Maju Barisan Nasional 1Malaysia Chinese New Year open house here on Saturday.

Yesterday, a central committee member, Datuk Ti Lian Ker, who is aligned to MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat, urged Liow's faction to withdraw their resolutions, saying they were unconstitutional.

Among the resolutions were calling for fresh polls and the proposal to amend party constitution to standardise the appointment and removal of executive office bearers and their deputies by the president.

Ti claimed that the resolutions were unconstitutional as any proposal to amend the constitution needed prior referrals from the respective divisions and the CC.