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Malaysian opposition seeks to nominate Anwar in upcoming election
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (AFP) - Malaysia's opposition alliance will try to nominate
jailed former deputy premier
Anwar Ibrahim as a candidate in the November 29 election, his wife says.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad meanwhile announced that at least 30 percent of
candidates for his National Front
would be new faces, as part of his bid to win another crushing majority.
Anwar's wife wan Azizah Wan Ismail told AFP in an interview late Wednesday the
opposition Alternative Front would
seek to nominate Anwar.
"He will stand as a candidate in KL (Kuala Lumpur)," she said, adding the
constituency had already been decided. She
declined to identify it, saying "they can do many things to prevent him from
standing for election."
Wan Azizah, head of the National Justice Party, said she herself would contest
the Permatang Pauh constituency in
Penang state -- which her husband held for the United Malays National
Organisation (UMNO), dominant partner in
the National Front.
Mahathir sacked Anwar as deputy premier and finance minister in September 1998.
He was later that month expelled
from UMNO and detained.
Anwar was jailed in April for six years for abuse of official powers and is now
on trial for sodomy. Supporters say that
since his appeal is pending against his corruption conviction, he has the right
to contest the election even though he is in
jail.
A candidate need not be present in person to file nomination papers Saturday.
Anwar is the candidate for premier of the alliance, which includes the National
Justice Party, the Democratic Action
Party (DAP) and the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS).
Mahathir's aim in the parliamentary and state assembly polls is to retain his
coalition's two-thirds parliamentary majority
and win back the PAS-held northern state of Kelantan. But the Anwar issue has
split the ethnic Malay community.
Mahathir admitted Thursday the coalition faces problems in three states in the
northern ethnic Malay heartland but said
it would still win there.
"We are not denying that we are facing problems in the three states (Kedah,
Terengganu and Perlis)," he told local
editors.
"We faced the same problems in the previous elections but the results were
different from what had been predicted by
analysts."
An aide to a senior UMNO minister told AFP Mahathir will embark on a nationwide
tour after nomination day to drum
up support, including Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Penang states.
The aide also said Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin, who has expressed a desire
to retire, would stand again in the
election.
But the New Straits Times Thursday said three-long serving ministers had decided
not to stand. It named them as Lim
Ah Lek, human resources minister; Amar Sulaiman Daud, agriculture minister; and
Abang Abu Bakar, defence
minister.
The premier, for the third time in five days, predicted the opposition alliance
would try to stir up election trouble.
"We anticipate attempts by the opposition to disrupt the smooth conduct of the
election, especially a few days before
polling, on realising they have a slim chance to win," he said.
Wan Azizah said earlier Mahathir was raising the prospect of riots to scare the
ethnic Chinese electorate into voting
"for continuing supposed stability."
Lim Kit Siang, whose DAP Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking to halt the election
to protest at the "unconstitutional"
exclusion of 680,000 new voters, said Thursday he had heard nothing on when it
would be heard.
The voters registered in April or May. But the election commission says it will
not be able to check and process the
names and include them on the electoral roll until next January.
Even if the suit were heard after the elections, Lim said, a court has the power
to declare the results null and void.
"I hope the hearing can be held before nomination day (Saturday). I hope the
court will meet urgently to address a
matter which can brook no delay."
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