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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been endorsed by the country’s Islamist party, further supporting his push to win power.
On Tuesday, Anwar secured a sweeping victory in a by-election, opening the way for him to return to parliament after a decade-long absence.
"As a member of the (opposition alliance) Pakatan Rakyat, we will agree to support Anwar as opposition leader to replace his wife," Kamarudin Jaffar, the secretary general of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS), said in a statement.
A coalition made up of PAS, an ethnic Chinese party and Anwar’s People's Justice Party controls 82 seats in the 222-member parliament.
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