The attacks on Kota Laksamana assemblyperson Betty Chew at the Malacca state assembly recently has proved that BN leaders have run out of ideas, said PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

She said the verbal onslaught hinting that Chew’s husband, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had had an affair with a former staff member was a clear pattern of character assassination against political opponents.