Polls soon if Malaysia Day plan fails

malasianinsider | Looking tired from a week of high drama, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim last night predicted impending elections if his plan to capture Putrajaya by September 16 fails.

This is the opposition leader's first admission that his bold prediction of forming the federal government by Malaysia Day could just be that, a prediction.

"Even if we don't come to power, we will have elections very quickly," Anwar told a 10,000-strong crowd in Kuantan days after being arrested for questioning in a sodomy case.

The arrest and sodomy claims were an exact repeat of similar events a decade ago that toppled him from within a heart beat to be Prime Minister after his former mentor Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.... selanjutnya.