Anwar, with other PKR leaders, speaks to the press in Kuching today, April 15, 2011.
With just 12 hours left on the campaign clock, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has confidently declared that Pakatan Rakyat is now looking beyond denying Barisan Nasional its two-thirds majority and aiming to capture Sarawak.
But the PR de facto leader said the final hours would prove crucial to ensure BN’s last-ditched attempt to use money politics and underhanded tactics to steal opposition votes would not succeed.
“We are very optimistic we are going to go far beyond that (denying two-thirds), we are pushing to deny BN its monopoly of the state,” he said.
But Anwar stopped short of saying the opposition pact would wrest the hornbill state from BN entirely, reiterating that the alleged deployment of BN agents to buy votes would be hard to stop.
“We are pushing towards that although we know it is still uphill.
“But if the process has been free and fair from the beginning, I have no qualms about that... however, we are fighting against the entire government machinery.
“We are concerned of the development in the next few hours,” he said.
Just two days back, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had admitted that retaining its two-thirds majority in the 71-seat state assembly would be a “bonus”.
BN’s campaign for Sarawak, led by Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud for 30 years, thus far has been described by many as lacklustre, heavily bogged down by the anti-Taib stigma and the numerous allegations of corruption and abuse of power.
