So we expect that today, well, I’ll be sworn in as prime minister,” Mahathir said. So we expect that today, well, I’ll be sworn in as prime minister,” Mahathir said. Anwar, a former deputy prime minister in the ruling party, was also imprisoned under Mahathir following a power struggle. Mahathir is being investigated under that law for claiming a plane he was to travel on was sabotaged during the campaign. Mahathir disputed Najib’s assertion during a concession speech that Malaysia’s king must appoint the new prime minister because no single party has a parliamentary majority, calling it “confusion.”The constitution, he said, only specifies that the prime minister must represent those with a majority in the legislature.

Source: Indian Express May 10, 2018 08:49 UTC