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He claimed the problem began right after he resigned from his first tenure as the prime minister in 2003 and handed over the reins to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad blamed his successors for causing division among the Malays, alleging that their incompetence caused the community to abandon Umno.

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MALAYSIA: Mahathir Mohamad, the former longtime Prime Minister of Malaysia, asked in a social media post on Monday (Nov 18), “Have we become a part of China?”

Dr Mahathir, who turns 100 on July 10, 2025, wrote that on the weekends, he drives around Malaysia’s capital and sometimes visits Kuala Lumpur’s shopping complexes.