Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has won a landslide victory in a special election, marking a triumphant return to parliament more than a decade after he was thrown out for alleged sex crimes.
The Election Commission announced that Anwar had won 31,195 of the estimated 47,000 votes cast in the election in a semi-rural district in the northern state of Penang that has been his stronghold since 1982.
His rival, Arif Shah Omar Shah of the governing National Front coalition, got 15,524 votes. A third independent candidate got 92 votes.
Anwar's victory strengthens his campaign to topple the government and become the next prime minister even though he is facing a new charge of having sex with a male aide.
Source : AP - http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hA4i8e8nbm4tDCnpZz09oY7JNr7g
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