Anwar says only fraud can stop Pakatan

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By admin-s On May 4, 2013

(FMT) – Barisan has launched an all-out blitz, with Najib showering voters with cash handouts from government coffers, as Barisan-controlled traditional media relentlessly attack Pakatan.

At a last-ditch Pakatan Rakyat campaign blitz today the Pakatan de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim warned that Barisan Nasional will attempt to cheat.

Anwar Ibrahim said only fraud can stop his Malaysian opposition from scoring a historic election win as the rival sides launched a last-ditch campaign blitz Saturday on the eve of a tense vote.

Sunday’s elections are the first in the country’s 56 years of independence in which the only government Malaysia has known faces possible defeat.

The uncertainty has given rise to a bitter campaign, with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak warning of chaos and ethnic strife under the opposition, which has countered with numerous allegations of government vote fraud.

Anwar set the stage for a possibly destabilising challenge to the results, accusing the Barisan Nasional (National Front) regime of cheating to thwart what he called a “democratic revolution”.

“We have advised our supporters to remain calm, not to be provoked, not to take the law into their own hands, support the process,” Anwar told AFP in an interview in his home seat in the state of Penang.

He added: “unless there’s a major massive fraud tomorrow, that is our nightmare… we will win.”