Dr M suggests he could stay in office beyond 2020
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad speaks during a dialogue session at a dinner with the Malaysian diaspora in Qatar December 13, 2019. — Bernama pic
DOHA, Dec 14 ― Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad suggested today he may seek to stay in power after 2020. Asked at the Doha Forum in Qatar if he would step down in 2020, he said he wanted to fix problems created by the previous government before resigning. He also said he could not guarantee who would succeed him as prime minister.
Dr Mahathir promised on December 10 to hand over power to his anointed successor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, in spite of new sexual assault allegations against him, and that he may hand over power after a summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation countries that Malaysia is to host in November 2020. Dr Mahathir was unexpectedly elected in 2018 as the head of a coalition government whose largest party is led by Anwar, 72, who has been jailed twice on separate counts of sodomy and for corruption ― charges he said were political. ― Reuters
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