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Monday, July 27, 2015

Mahathir, as resolute as ever to have things his way

Chris Wright of Forbes notes that the former PM finds it hard to approve of the country's leaders unless they consult with him in all they do and keep his projects alive.
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PETALING JAYA: In an interview with Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Chris Wright, a contributor to Forbes, remarked that the former prime minister was hard pressed to approve of any of his successors unless they consulted with him over plans they wished to execute in the governing of the country and kept his pet projects alive.
In the first of a two-part series, Wright writes, “One suspects that Mahathir would have a hard time finding a prime minister he likes for any length of time unless that prime minister either governs by consulting him, or is him.”
He made this observation when Mahathir lamented how both his successors Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and later Najib Razak, both governed the country their own way, not following through on the former PM’s projects and policies, which he claimed they promised to deliver once assuming leadership.
Wright quoted Mahathir as saying he was not the kind to hold grudges against people and remarked it was “eye-wateringly unlikely”.
“Mahathir’s ability to remember a slight for years and even decades has been widely remarked upon and is written all over his memoirs too. But it’s clear that Mahathir feels his successor (Badawi) owed him something for bringing him to power despite his previous opposition.”
While Badawi cancelled a railway line project dear to Mahathir’s heart after just two weeks in office, Najib he claimed, ignored him in his first six months then cancelled a bridge to Singapore, another project of the former PM’s, besides many others.
Wright also noted that Mahathir said he “could not tolerate” the nepotism that Badawi practised yet thought it acceptable to pick Najib as the next PM because he was “grateful” to the latter’s father for bringing him back into Umno and seeing his eventual elevation to PM all those years ago.
When asked by Wright if there were any candidates he liked the look of in Umno, Mahathir blamed the party for not wanting any “capable people to join them” because they would not then have their way.
“I ask him what he sees his role as being in Malaysian politics and life now, but he misunderstands, or else chooses to answer in terms of the past, and launches into a brief defence of his own administration”, Wright said, adding that when pressed again, Mahathir finally said that he should “retire and not interfere”.
“He’s surely joking: Mahathir’s is a dry wit and not everything he says should be taken at face value,” Wright reminded his readers.

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