PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan has defended his remarks that PKR president Anwar Ibrahim is a convict.
He said those who are seeking an apology from him should get their facts straight.
"I spoke based on facts and I ask those who want me to apologise to check the facts and the law, because this case has been decided by the courts.
"Our country has clear laws about the position of those convicted by the courts, so they have to check this. I have checked, if not I wouldn't have said it," Takiyuddin said last night.
He said this when met after Umno's 73rd anniversary celebrations in Kuala Lumpur.
The Kota Bharu MP had courted flak after questioning whether the people want a convict like Anwar as their future prime minister.
This is in reference to the Federal Court's decision to uphold the Court of Appeal's move to overturn Anwar's acquittal for the Sodomy II case. He was sentenced to five-years jail in 2015.
However, following Pakatan Harapan's victory in last year's general election, Anwar was granted a full pardon by then Agong, Kelantan's Sultan Muhammad V.
The pardon was given on the grounds that Anwar was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
The PKR leader later claimed that the pardon took effect from 1998, therefore, providing him with a clean slate.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and PKR Youth have called Takiyuddin's remarks an insult to Sultan Muhammad V who issued the pardon. - Mkini
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