{"id":14917,"date":"2020-02-24T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T00:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/anwar-ibrahim-decries-traitors-amid-cracks-in-deal-to-make-him-malaysias-next-pm"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T09:48:33","slug":"anwar-ibrahim-decries-traitors-amid-cracks-in-deal-to-make-him-malaysias-next-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14917","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s PM Mahathir Mohamad resigns amid political turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 94-year-old quits after Anwar Ibrahim accused his party of betraying a promise to transfer power<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has resigned amid a day of political drama, prompting the collapse of the ruling alliance and uncertainty over the future leadership of the country.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation, delivered to the king on Monday afternoon, follows accusations that the 94-year-old leader betrayed a promise to hand over power to the country\u2019s would-be prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar was promised that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/09\/malaysian-pm-mahathir-anwar-bury-hatchet-after-20-years\">would succeed Mahathir<\/a> when the rivals partnered in an unlikely alliance that won power less than two years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/anwar-ibrahim-decries-traitors-amid-cracks-in-deal-to-make-him-malaysias-next-pm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 94-year-old quits after Anwar Ibrahim accused his party of betraying a promise to transfer powerMalaysia\u2019s prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has resigned amid a day of political drama, prompting the collapse of the ruling alliance and uncertainty o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1146,41,1147,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anwar-ibrahim","category-asia-pacific","category-mahathir-mohamad","category-malaysia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14933,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14917\/revisions\/14933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}