Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has urged former premier Najib Abdul Razak's supporters to vote during the upcoming state elections.
Zahid said there are efforts underway to help Najib in the legal and other aspects.
"We have to separate (Najib's) legal issues with the upcoming elections. Even his own children have urged supporters to back the unity government.
"If Najib is asking you to back the government, not only his supporters, all Malaysians should support the unity government," Zahid told reporters in Kuala Lumpur today.
Zahid was replying to a question from a reporter who alleged that some of Najib's supporters will boycott the upcoming election because the government was not committed to freeing Najib.
During the Umno annual general assembly last month, Najib's three children lobbied the party to help their father achieve freedom.
Najib has been serving a 12-year jail term since last August for criminal breach of trust, abuse of power and money laundering involving state-owned SRC International Sdn Bhd.
With all legal avenues exhausted, Najib's only hope for freedom is through a royal pardon.
When the Federal Territories Pardons Board last met on April 28, it did not consider pardon petitions filed on Najib's behalf.
According to the board's secretary Khairul Dzaimee Daud, the application would only be considered at an "appropriate time". - Mkini
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