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View all search resultsReferring to the beheading of a French teacher who had shown pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, Mahathir said he did not approve of his murder but that freedom of expression does not include "insulting other people".
Anwar had on Tuesday met with King Al-Sultan Abdullah to prove that he has a "convincing" parliamentary majority to form a new government, sparking a fresh bout of political wrangling just months after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin rose to the post.
Anwar last week announced he had been granted an audience with King Al-Sultan Abdullah on Tuesday to present documentation "of the strong and convincing majority" of legislators behind his bid to replace Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
On Aug. 29, the residents of Slim, a small, rural and Malay-majority state seat will vote in a by-election. While the constituency is not usually on most people’s radar, this time around, strategists and analysts will be eagerly scrutinizing the results of the contest.
Whatever the verdict on Monday, Najib may feel relieved knowing that the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the party he once led, is growing stronger and looks set to regain the power it lost in 2018 — ironically thanks to the squabbling within the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, which ended the UMNO-led ruling coalition’s 60-year stranglehold of Malaysian politics.
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