{"id":29491,"date":"2018-10-26T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29491"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:19:16","slug":"mahathirs-surprise-on-the-malaysian-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mahathirs-surprise-on-the-malaysian-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahathir\u2019s surprise: on the Malaysian elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/mahathirs-surprise\/article23841136.ece\">Mahathir\u2019s surprise: on the Malaysian elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malaysia<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mahathir Mohamad, a 92 year old political veteran elected as the Prime Minister of Malaysia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>This election can spur democratic movement in Southeast Asia, in which one party rule and military\u2019s influence is dominant.<\/li>\n<li>The clear majority for the opposition Pakatan Harapan in the new federal legislature also signaled Mr Mohamed\u2019s comeback.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Reasons for the loss of previous Prime Minister Najib Razak and his party United Malays National Organisation(UNMO):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor economic track record<\/li>\n<li>Stringent curbs on media freedoms<\/li>\n<li>Last \u00a0minute meddling with electoral constituencies<\/li>\n<li>Mr Razak\u2019s involvement in a multimillion dollar embezzlement scandal in a sovereign wealth fund.<\/li>\n<li>Investigations in several countries regarding the scam damaged the country\u2019s reputation as a regional tiger economy.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Mohamed forged an alliance with Anwar Ibrahim, an arch rival of Najib Razak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>\u00a0UNMO has been ousted from power for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Mohamed helped found UNMO and held power between 1981 and 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Mohamed selected Najib Razak to be the Prime Minister in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Mohamed in his previous stints as Prime Minister was known for grandstanding on Asian values of collective well being over the West\u2019s emphasis on individual rights.<\/li>\n<li>As the future Prime Minister Mr Mohamed has promised to uphold Rule of Law which will strike a chord across ASEAN.<\/li>\n<li>ASEAN considers lack of democratic accountability as a an obstacle to consolidating the gains from economic integration<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahathir\u2019s surprise: on the Malaysian elections Malaysia News: Mahathir Mohamad, a 92 year old political veteran elected as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Important Analysis: This election can spur democratic movement in Southeast Asia, in which one party rule and military\u2019s influence is dominant. The clear majority for the opposition Pakatan Harapan in the new&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mahathirs-surprise-on-the-malaysian-elections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahathir\u2019s surprise: on the Malaysian elections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704614193},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}