{"id":8171,"date":"2018-05-10T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T10:42:25","slug":"veteran-leader-mahathir-wins-shock-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/veteran-leader-mahathir-wins-shock-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran leader Mahathir wins shock election victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8172\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Mahatir.jpg\" alt=\"Mahatir\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>An alliance of opposition parties spearheaded by Mahathir Mohamad won Malaysia\u2019s general election on Thursday, official results showed, setting the veteran strongman on course for a return to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office he occupied for 22 years.<br \/>\nMahathir\u2019s stunning defeat of the ruling coalition that has ruled the Southeast Asian country since independence from Britain six decades ago means that, at the age of 92, he will become the oldest elected leader in the world.<br \/>\nOfficial results at 4:08 a.m. (2008 GMT on Wednesday) showed that Mahathir\u2019s Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) had won 112 of parliament\u2019s 222 seats, clinching the simple majority required to rule.<br \/>\nNajib\u2019s ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN), had 79.<br \/>\nMahathir is a polarizing figure and many voters are suspicious of him because of his iron-fist rule as prime minister from 1981 to 2003.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/veteran-leader-mahathir-wins-shock-election-victory\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alliance of opposition parties spearheaded by Mahathir Mohamad won Malaysia\u2019s general election on Thursday, official results showed, setting the veteran strongman on course for a return to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office he occupied for 22 years. Mahathir\u2019s stunning defeat of the ruling coalition that has ruled the Southeast Asian country since independence from Britain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}