POLÍTICA
Mahathir de Malasia se convierte en el primer ministro más viejo del mundo
May 10, 2018 - El exlíder de Malasia Mahathir Mohamad se convertirá en el líder electo más viejo del mundo a los 92 años, tras una sorpresiva victoria en una encarnizada batalla electoral.
The former PM came out of retirement and defected to the opposition to take on his one-time protégé Najib Razak, beset by corruption allegations.
The election marks the first time Mr Najib’s United Malays National
Organisation (Umno) party and its allies have lost an election since independence in 1957.
Mahathir led the coalition as Malaysia’s prime minister for 22 years, starting in 1981. As one of the country’s most eminent leaders, he was pugnacious, uncompromising and intolerant of dissent, but turned Malaysia from a sleepy backwater into one of the world’s modern industrialised nations.