'This election is personal': Mahathir Mohamad, 92, vows to stop 'corrupt' protege

Former Malaysian PM insists he is returning to the political fray ‘with great reluctance’ because he was betrayed by Najib Razak

Mahathir Mohamad is 92 and by his own account should be enjoying a “nice time” during his retirement. But instead, Malaysia’s arch political puppetmaster and former prime minister is returning to the political fray, bent on toppling his former protege and reclaiming power.

This time around, the man whose ambitions and political grudges came to influence every major power shift in the country for decades has his sights on bringing down the current prime minister, Najib Razak, a man he dismisses as “corrupt”.

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