Mahathir Mahathir, 92, claims win over ruling coalition in Malaysia elections
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/09/mahathir-mahathir-92-claims-win-ruling-coalition-malaysia-elections/
At fucking 92, I wonder how long he'll last
Congrats on beating BN, Malaysia.
It didn't happen as quickly as we might have expected, but they did it. I haven't followed Malaysia in a while and I thought BN was too entrenched was to be ousted in this way. Historic.
He promised to hand over power to Anwar, the supposed opposition party icon, when he finishes serving jail time this year.
Mahathir is already PM for 22 years and made plenty of enemies, I doubt he wants to go on.
atm the election commission is deliberately delaying the declaration. 4am local time
Well we all know Najib is pretty fucked, when the investigation into 1MDB opens up.
https://twitter.com/jamesmassola/status/994291179905695744
Must be so weird for a country to have not experienced a democratic change of government before
imo nothing much will change. Economic growth highly probable, but most just wanted the rat off the office, nobody voted for a shift in ideology or anything.
However, Chinese-Malay tension might rise, given that more Chinese are now in the office. BN's primary supporters consist mainly of Muslim fundamentalists, they WON'T be happy.
That's good, you guys really need to move away from race based politics. Hopefully there is a more equal representation, its fucking primitive when you guys had the ultras.
My only worry is that, Mahathir came from BN, it might maintain a big status quo, or worst, making the relationship with Singapore like if he decides to axe the upcoming high speed rail.
eh, we like to think we've been ruled worse. Time will tell
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