KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has already decided he will not be an election candidate again, but wants the Parti Bumiputera Perkasa...
KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has already decided he will not be an election candidate again, but wants the Parti Bumiputera Perkasa Malaysia , which he has just joined, to form an anti-corruption coalition to run in the 16th general election due in five years’ time, a report said., Dr Mahathir said he had joined Putra to “give myself a platform”, and hopes that the party will run in GE16 as part of a new coalition.
He contested as the chairman of the three-year-old party Parti Pejuang Tanah Air which he had helped found, but he had on February 10 quit Pejuang and subsequently joined Putra the same month. “I cannot play a positive role in politics in Malaysia because of my age. But I have gone through a very long period in the politics of Malaysia, more than 80 years. I have experienced a lot of changes in Malaysia.
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