(8 May 2018) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his former mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, made their final pitches to voters on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's general election.
Voters face a stark choice in the vote: resurrect the country's 92-year-old former authoritarian leader or give a third term to Najib, whose alleged role in the multibillion-dollar ransacking of a state investment fund has battered Malaysia's standing abroad.
Najib's ruling party, in control for six decades, is likely to hold on to power due to an electoral system that gives more weight to rural voters, analysts say, but at the price of reduced legitimacy.
The contest pits Najib, a political blue blood, against his former political mentor, Mahathir, prime minister for 22 years until 2003 and credited with modernising Malaysia.
Mahathir, 92, emerged from political retirement and joined the opposition in an attempt to oust his former protege Najib following the multi-billion dollar corruption scandal.
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