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08.26.2008 2:21pm EDT
(Permatang Pauh, Malaysia) The official vote count shows Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has won a special election for a parliament seat, strengthening his campaign to topple the government and become the next prime minister even though he is facing charges of sodomizing a male aide.
The official count showed Anwar has taken an unbeatable lead in Tuesday’s election, defeating the governing coalition’s candidate.Anwar’s re-entry into parliament would formally complete the political rehabilitation of a man who was fired as deputy prime minister in 1998 and jailed for six years after he was convicted of corruption and sodomizing his family driver.
Anwar calls the latest sodomy charges against him “most sickening” and a homophobic politically motivated attack.
Anwar Ibrahim, was and is a fine gentlemen, I have known him and the family for a very long time, the claim was never right what Mr.M. did and he knows that was wrong, just ego! I wish Anwar Ibrahim good look only….Malaysia is a very / great country indeed.