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== Key People & Background == | == Key People & Background == | ||
[[File:Mahathir 2.jpg|thumb|220x220px|Mahathir Mohamad]]Alliance of Hope, a coalition of four political parties, People's Justice Party (PKR), Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), National Trust Party (AMANAH), and [[Democratic Action Party|Democratic Action Party (DAP)]], won the 2018 Malaysian general election against the then-incumbent Barisan Nasional, which had held power in the federal government for 60 years. Mahathir Mohamad, the chairman of Bersatu and president of Pakatan Harapan, was elected as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, making him the oldest prime minister in the world at age 92. He had previously served as the fourth prime minister from 1981 until 2003 under the banner | [[File:Mahathir 2.jpg|thumb|220x220px|Mahathir Mohamad]]Alliance of Hope, a coalition of four political parties, People's Justice Party (PKR), Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), National Trust Party (AMANAH), and [[Democratic Action Party|Democratic Action Party (DAP)]], won the 2018 Malaysian general election against the then-incumbent Barisan Nasional, which had held power in the federal government for 60 years. Mahathir Mohamad, the chairman of Bersatu and president of Pakatan Harapan, was elected as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, making him the oldest prime minister in the world at age 92. He had previously served as the fourth prime minister from 1981 until 2003 under the banner of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of Barisan Nasional. He left the party in 2016 and founded Bersatu to oppose the regime of the sixth prime minister, Najib Razak, whom he had repeatedly urged to resign after the 1MDB scandal. | ||
Mahathir reconciled with his former political rival Anwar Ibrahim who was the leader of PKR, in order to win the election. Anwar was | Mahathir reconciled with his former political rival Anwar Ibrahim who was the leader of PKR, in order to win the election. Anwar was |