Election Fever Running High In Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR - SPECULATION over Malaysia's impending general election stepped up a notch yesterday when the election chief reiterated that the polls are just 'around the corner'.

All police officers and personnel have had their leave periods frozen indefinitely, further fuelling the speculation.

'We have several reasons for doing so, the main reason being that we need to have dry runs. There are many things that we need to do when the elections are called,' police chief Musa Hassan was quoted as saying by The Sunday Star yesterday.

The Election Commission, which oversees the running of elections, is also gearing up for the polls, chairman Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman said in an interview with the newspaper, the weekend edition of The Star, the biggest English daily.

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