Malaysia: Mahathir Mohamad loses elections for first time in over 50 yrs, had granted permanent residency to Indian hate preacher Zakir Naik
On November 19, the previous Prime Minister of Malaysia, 97-year-vintage Mahathir Mohamad, misplaced his parliamentary seat withinside the Malaysian elections. Notably, Mohamad had in advance stated if he misplaced this election, he could take retirement from politics. The humans of Malaysia forged their votes on Saturday, with a couple of events contesting in intently fought elections.
As consistent with reports, the ex-PM didn’t guard his Langkawi parliamentary seat. The unofficial remember of the votes has indicated that he even misplaced the deposit as he didn’t advantage as a minimum 20 percentage of the vote share. This is for the primary time in greater than fifty years that Mahathir has misplaced an election. He held the Guinness World Record for being the “world’s oldest top minister” whilst he took over the placement for the second one time in 2018. At that time, he turned into simply months farfar from turning 93.
Mahathir has served instances because the top minister of Malaysia for a complete of 24 years. During those elections, he trailed the winner from National Alliance through as a minimum 11,000 votes. Notably, for the reason that 1969, Mahatir had now no longer misplaced a unmarried election. This could were his 10th time period as a federal lawmaker if he had received. While speakme to Nikkei Asia, he had vowed to retire from politics if he misplaced his seat.
On the alternative hand, Prime Minister aspirant Anwar Ibrahim received the election from the Tambun constituency in northern Perak state. As consistent with the unofficial remember, he turned into main with 4,one hundred votes. His birthday birthday celebration Hope Pact turned into main in sixty four constituencies, whilst Muhyiddin-led National Alliance turned into main in 39 constituencies. The National Front turned into said to be main on 19 seats.
Mahathir Mohamad had given asylum to Zakir Naik In 2016, whilst India charged Islamic preacher and terror sympathiser Zakir Naik with cash laundering, he turned into in Malaysia. At that time, he determined to live there. In 2019, Zakir Naik turned into granted everlasting residency in Malaysia regardless of uproar from the general public in opposition to him. Petitions have been released for his deportation from Malaysia however not anything worked. Mahathir Mohamad turned into the Prime Minister of Malaysia whilst Zakir Naik turned into given everlasting residency.
In the identical year, there has been a bilateral assembly among Malaysia and India in Russia wherein India sought the extradition of Naik. However, Malaysian government denied receiving such a request from their Indian counterparts. In 2020, whilst Mahathir turned into eyeing to turn out to be Prime Minister for some other time period, he turned into quoted through WION News as announcing that Zakir Naik could now no longer be secure in India. He had stated that the Malaysian authorities favoured sending Naik to a rustic wherein “he could sense secure”. On May 13, 2020, the Indian authorities despatched a proper request to the Malaysian authorities searching for the extradition of Zakir Naik.Notably, Naik is presently in Qatar and is predicted to evangelise Islam at the sidelines of the FIFA World Cup that kicks off today.
