{"id":14964,"date":"2020-02-25T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/malaysias-political-turmoil-everything-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2020-02-25T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:52:00","slug":"malaysias-political-turmoil-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14964","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s political turmoil: everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Mahathir Mohamad\u2019s resignation sets rival parties against each other and could result in a snap election<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s ruling alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/anwar-ibrahim-decries-traitors-amid-cracks-in-deal-to-make-him-malaysias-next-pm\">collapsed on Monday<\/a> after the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, the world\u2019s oldest leader, shocked the nation by announcing that he would be stepping down. The king accepted his resignation but asked for him to stay on as interim leader. The country is now in limbo as rival parties rush to strike deals and form a government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/25\/malaysias-political-turmoil-everything-you-need-to-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Mahathir Mohamad\u2019s resignation sets rival parties against each other and could result in a snap electionThe country\u2019s ruling alliance collapsed on Monday after the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, the world\u2019s oldest leader, shocked the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[1146,41,1147,70,4,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anwar-ibrahim","category-asia-pacific","category-mahathir-mohamad","category-malaysia","category-politics","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\/14964","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14965,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions\/14965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}