'Politics at its worst': Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim denies sexual assault accusation amid party infighting

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Malaysian Government figure Anwar Ibrahim remains determined to become the country's eighth prime minister, despite allegations from a former staffer of sexual assault emerging late last week.

Senior PKR figures called the allegations into question given they surfaced just before the party's annual conference.Once the most bitter of foes, the incoming Malaysian PM pledges to seek a pardon for his former deputy, who he had jailed for corruption and sodomy in the 1990s, and even allow him to take over the top job within two years, writes Anne Barker.

"Coming more than one year after the alleged incident, and two days before the PKR conference, I believe that Yusoff has been manipulated by some politicians to serve their own interest," he said in a statement. "I thought we had left behind the politics of sodomy with the arrival of [New Malaysia] but, sadly, it keeps cropping up again and again," he said, referring to the period after Malaysia's May 2018 election.Sodomy still illegal in Malaysia

 

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Anwar Ibrahim is either a sexual predator writ large, or the subject of a series of very unfortunate allegations.

Not again. This has been going on since I was teaching in Penang in 1998😱

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