PKR de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim has written a letter to voters in Permatang Pauh urging them to vote for his wife, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
The parliament constituency in Penang will witness a by-election on May 7 after the seat was declared vacant following Anwar’s conviction and incarceration.
Wan Azizah will be facing Umno's Suhaimi Sabudin and two others in the contest.
Anwar, who wrote the letter when he attended the Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court of Appeal proceedings yesterday, thanked the voters for supporting him in the past.
"Insya'allah (God willing) I would persevere (in facing the five-year jail term) and continue to fight on.
"The country is facing numerous tyrannical actions and the government is abusing the people, including the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
"I hope you would support Wan Azizah as the PKR and Pakatan Rakyat candidate to uphold justice and to represent you," he said.
Permatang Pauh is considered a stronghold of Anwar. He held the seat since 1982 until his first imprisonment in 1999.
In the 1999, 2004 and 2008 general elections, Wan Azizah stood in the seat.
She then resigned to pave the way for a by-election when Anwar’s five-year ban from active politics expired in July 2008.
Anwar won the by-election and defended the seat in the 2013 national polls.
The former opposition leader was found guilty by the Federal Court on Feb 10 with sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
Yesteday, he was at the Syariah Court of Appeal to hear the decision on having senior lawyer Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar removed from representing Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom and two others, in his qazaf (bearing false witness) appeal.
Anwar has always maintained that the charge was fabricated by his political rivals but the government has denied this. - M'kini
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