Anwar to retire if he loses next polls


He is however assured that Pakatan Rakyat will win in a subsequent polls.
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim plans to finish his 30-year domestic career if he fails to unseat Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak during a subsequent election, he said.
Anwar was once emissary budding minister in a Barisan Nasional government that has ruled Malaysia given autonomy 55 years ago, but has campaigned against it given his startle ouster in 1998.
Najib must call inhabitant elections by June subsequent year as well as many observers expect a parsimonious competition after a ruling bloc suffered its misfortune showing ever during a last polls in 2008.
"I will try my best. you am assured you will win. But if not, you will step down," Anwar pronounced Friday night when taking part in a Google Hangout that was streamed live on YouTube.
Anwar, who has taught during Oxford as well as Washington's Georgetown University, pronounced he would return to educational life if he lost.
"If you do not get a mandate, afterwards you should give space for a second-liners in leadership," he pronounced during a one-hour question-and-answer eventuality that has previously featured US President Barack Obama.
Anwar has been in as well as out of court on various charges he says have been domestic ploys to tarnish his image as well as stifle his opposition coalition.
He was charged in May with participating in an illegal convene that saw tens of thousands take to a streets to call for reforms to a electoral system, that they say is biased towards a Barisan Nasional.
In Jan he was acquitted of having sex with! a male former aide during a finish of a extensive trial.
Previously, Anwar was imprisoned for corruption as well as sodomy after he fell out with a afterwards budding minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1998.
He was expelled from jail in 2004 after a sodomy conviction was overturned.
AFP
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