KLANG, MALAYSIA: Selangor Opposition chief and former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo has called for Pakatan Rakyat state executive councillor Elizabeth Wong to resign on moral grounds.

He said Malaysians were not ready to accept leaders who were embroiled in scandals.

Given this, he said Wong must relinquish all her positions.

"This is a moral issue and Malaysians cannot accept leaders with moral issues and so she must vacate her State Assembly seat.

"Let the people decide and if they still want her, they can vote her in again, or vote for someone else if they don't want her to represent them anymore," said Dr Khir.

He was commenting on the nude photos of Elizabeth being circulated through multi media messaging service (MMS).

Kuala Kubu Baru MCA assemblyman Wong Koon Mun said that a wrong was a wrong.

The picture was obviously taken by someone who had access to her bedroom.

"Who is that person? And if it's her boyfriend as rumoured, it is morally wrong for a single woman to allow a man access to her room," he said.

He added that it was equally immoral for the culprit to have taken photos of Elizabeth in the nude without her knowledge.

Meanwhile, national Barisan leaders expressed sympathy for what Wong was going through.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said such an incident should not have happen.

"She is a wakil rakyat and she is doing her job as one. To get her down this way is not good.

"I hope she will be strong and ignore whatever that has happened," he said when asked to comment on the case in Parliament yesterday.

Puteri Umno chief Datuk Noraini Ahmad said an individual's privacy should be respected.

"People should not do such things," she said.

However, she said people would closely observe their leaders and they needed to watch their conduct.

She said they virtually do not have private lives any more.