Senior Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein today said that Pakatan Harapan chairman Anwar Ibrahim’s claims stating that armed forces personnel have already conducted early voting for the 15th general election are overboard. He also rubbished Anwar’s claims of army personnels being paid to do so.

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Hishammuddin said that Anwar’s claims is dragging the integrity and dignity of the Malaysia Armed Forces. “His actions in dragging the MAF into his political chess game not only will upset our security forces but also the public, who are of the opinion that there should be limits to politicking,” he said.

This comes after Anwar claimed that there was a military camp in Bera that had conducted early voting and that personnel were paid RM300 each.