Scandal-tainted Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak vowed to fight to the end for Malays and Islam on Thursday, as he called on his ruling party to prepare for elections that are “coming soon”. The prime minister repeated his support for a bill promoting strict Islamic law, called hudud, adding that it would be taken up for discussion by the federal government. In February, Najib expressed his support of a contentious bill that sought to incorporate parts of the Islamic penal code, or “hudud”, into Malaysia’s existing Islamic legal system. Najib, however, is implicated in the scandal surrounding Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, which has been dubbed by US Attorney General Jess Session as “kleptocracy at its worst.”