.jamesmassola: Has the Canberra disease spread to Malaysian politics?
Almost from the moment Mahathir Mohamad claimed an extraordinary election win in May 2018, delivering the country's first change of government 61 years after Malaysia's independence, speculation has swirled about when – or if – he would follow through on his promise to hand the prime ministership to Anwar Ibrahim.Soon enough, though, the May 2020 handover date started to slip.
At one point, local media reported the leaders of the six parties that would form a new government were at the monarch's residence, the Istana Negara, to talk to the King, that Mahathir was on his way there and that a press conference would follow afterwards.
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