Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today he felt that the voters of the Kajang state constituency are bored with the political games of PKR, which had forced the by-election there although this move was not legally wrong.

    

He also said that PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, whom the party has named as its candidate for the by-election, did not respect the law because he continued to talk about his court case in his political ceramah (talks).

    

"A person who does not respect the law has no right to be a leader. Leaders must be people who abide by the laws and regulations, only then will the country be peaceful.

“The country will be destroyed if we have - as a leader - someone who does not respect the law," he said.

    

Dr Mahathir spoke to reporters after solo cyclist Wan Hashim Wan Mahmood, 68, called on him at the Perdana Leadership Foundation in Putrajaya. Wan Hashim had launched his mission on Jan 26 to cycle solo around the peninsula.

    

The Election Commission (EC) has announced March 11 as nomination day and March 23 as polling day for the by-election, which had been necessitated by the sudden resignation of PKR assemblyperson Lee Chin Cheh on Jan 27.

- Bernama