{"id":15214,"date":"2020-02-29T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/malaysias-mahathir-says-he-will-stand-again-for-pm"},"modified":"2020-02-29T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:15:19","slug":"malaysias-mahathir-says-he-will-stand-again-for-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15214","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s Mahathir says he will stand again for PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coalition with Anwar Ibrahim back on after a week of political turmoil<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir Mohamad has said he will stand again for Malaysian prime minister on behalf of the former ruling coalition, less than a week after quitting and plunging the country into political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir \u2013 who as interim prime minister is the world\u2019s oldest government leader at 94 \u2013 has reunited with on-off ally and long-term rival Anwar Ibrahim, 72 \u2013 resuming a pact that swept their coalition to a surprise election victory in 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/malaysias-mahathir-says-he-will-stand-again-for-pm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coalition with Anwar Ibrahim back on after a week of political turmoilMahathir Mohamad has said he will stand again for Malaysian prime minister on behalf of the former ruling coalition, less than a week after quitting and plunging the country into pol&#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":[41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/15214","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=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions\/15215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}