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== 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 ~~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.

[[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|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 previously Mahathir's deputy prime minister from 1993 to 1998 before he was dismissed and imprisoned from 1998 until 2004 under corruption charges. He was further imprisoned in 2014 under sodomy charges before receiving a royal pardon in 2018 from the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Muhammad V of Kelantan. Mahathir had promised to hand over the position of prime minister to Anwar in two years. Mahathir resigned from his position on 24 February 2020.

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 == 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 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.
+[[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|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 previously Mahathir's deputy prime minister from 1993 to 1998 before he was dismissed and imprisoned from 1998 until 2004 under corruption charges. He was further imprisoned in 2014 under sodomy charges before receiving a royal pardon in 2018 from the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Muhammad V of Kelantan. Mahathir had promised to hand over the position of prime minister to Anwar in two years. Mahathir resigned from his position on 24 February 2020.