{"id":50000,"date":"2022-11-05T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T06:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/malaysias-97-year-old-former-pm-mahathir-mohamad-seeks-re-election-in-his-seat"},"modified":"2022-11-05T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T06:27:35","slug":"malaysias-97-year-old-former-pm-mahathir-mohamad-seeks-re-election-in-his-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50000","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s 97-year-old former PM Mahathir Mohamad seeks re-election in his seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahathir has offered to become prime minister for a third time, as campaigning in Malaysia\u2019s general election gets under way<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir Mohamad, the 97-year-old elder statesman of Malaysian politics, filed his candidacy on Saturday as campaigning for the upcoming general elections began.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/malaysia-pm-dissolves-parliament-and-calls-early-election-amid-political-turmoil\">called for elections 10 months ahead of schedule<\/a>, hoping to win a stronger mandate for his party and stabilise the rocky political landscape that has plagued the country over the past four years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/05\/malaysias-97-year-old-former-pm-mahathir-mohamad-seeks-re-election-in-his-seat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahathir has offered to become prime minister for a third time, as campaigning in Malaysia\u2019s general election gets under wayMahathir Mohamad, the 97-year-old elder statesman of Malaysian politics, filed his candidacy on Saturday as campaigning for the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,1147,70,341,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-mahathir-mohamad","category-malaysia","category-najib-razak","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\/50000","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50000\/revisions\/50001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}