Anwar: 18,500 increase in Pekan voters shows fraud in Najib’s backyard

KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim accused his archrival Datuk Seri Najib Razak of electoral fraud in the prime minister’s constituency of Pekan, pointing to the increase of 18,500 voters there since Election 2008.

The PKR de facto leader told a press conference this was more than three times the 5,000 increase in Kuantan, an urban seat currently held by PKR vice-president Fuziah Salleh.

“Such great development there while all the neighbouring constituencies grew so little.