Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took refuge at the Turkish Embassy on Sunday after police began probing an allegation that he sodomized his male aide, reprising a sex scandal that led to his imprisonment a decade ago.
Anwar, 60, dismissed the accusation, made in a police complaint filed by the 23-year-old aide on Saturday, as “a complete fabrication.”
The dramatic developments that began to unfold a little before midnight Saturday will likely further roil Malaysian politics, which have been in turmoil since March 8 elections handed the governing National Front coalition its worst-ever result.
A three-party opposition coalition led by Anwar made spectacular gains, winning an unprecedented 82 seats in the 222-member Parliament and the legislatures of five states. Anwar has threatened to engineer defections from the National Front to bring down the government by September.
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The police report lodged against me earlier today is a complete fabrication. I believe we are witnessing a repeat of the methods used against me in 1998 when false allegations were made under duress. This is clearly a desperate attempt by the Barisan Nasional regime to arrest the movement of the Malaysian people towards freedom, democracy and justice.
Di Warkah Untuk PM ini disediakan satu borang maklumat untuk memudahkan mereka yang ingin memberi maklumbalas kepada Perdana Menteri dalam bentuk sokongan, aduan, harapan dan cadangan berkaitan prestasi dan ikrar Perdana Menteri serta kepimpinan Negara dan Kerajaan Negeri untuk kemajuan rakyat dan Negara. Borang ini disediakan dalam empat bahasa utama di Malaysia.
Najib and Rosmah have repeatedly denied they are linked to the killing of Altantuya, describing the widely-known allegations was nothing more than ‘slander and concocted stories’.
The breakdown of successful candidates was 62.19% bumiputra, 30.97% Chinese and 6.84% Indian. Successful female applicants made up 64.5% of the total number, in line with the past few years’ trend.
