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Malaysia's allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung leader Mahathir Mohamad has staged a allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung political comeback to end the six- allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung rule of the Barisan Nasional (BN) party. It is still allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung when Mr Mahathir, 92, will be sworn in as Malaysia's next prime minister. When he assumes allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung, he will be the world's oldest elected allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung. Mahathir was Malaysia's prime minister from 1981 to 2003. At that allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung, he was leader of the BN party, which came to power in 1957 after Malaysia gained independence from British colonial rule. He was allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung in his country's economic success and in making Malaysia an "Asian tiger". He was also accused of being an allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung leader who used security laws to imprison his allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung.

Official polling allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung show Mahathir's Pakatan Harapan party has won 113 allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung. This is sufficient to form a simple majority in the country's 222-seat parliament. Mahathir came out of allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung and joined the opposition party. In an often allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung-contested election race, he defeated his former protégé Najib Razak. Mr Najib had been beset by allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung of corruption and a multi-billion-dollar financial allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung. Mahathir told reporters that he wanted to put Malaysia back on the right track. He said: "What we want to do is to restore the allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung of law." When reporters asked about his advancing allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung, he joked about age. He said his new allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung would be, "a gathering of men and women, including a allegationsauthoritarianbitterlycabinetdecadeformerinstrumentalleaderopponentspowerremarkableresultsretirementrulescandalseatstimeunclearyearsyoung person".