The wife of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has won his parliament seat in a by-election, officials said, in one of two votes held this week that were seen as a test of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s leadership.
The announcement on Friday came a day after Wan Azizah Wan Ismail - a medical doctor and mother of six - took the seat in the northern state of Penang, according to unofficial poll results, that was vacated after her husband was jailed in February.
Anwar was imprisoned for five years on charges that he sodomised a former male aide, a case he says was fabricated by the government.
Thursday’s result marks the second time that Wan Azizah, 62, has stepped in for her husband during his controversial imprisonments. There was no immediate statement from her.
She won the same seat in 1999, replacing Anwar after her husband was sacked as deputy prime minister in Malaysia’s long-ruling government and jailed on previous sodomy and corruption charges widely considered politically motivated.
That imprisonment left Wan Azizah at the head of the reform movement that emerged in response to Anwar's ouster, and she twice defended the seat.
But she vacated it in 2008 to allow Anwar to return to parliament after his release.
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