NSTnation: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Tan Sri MuhyiddinYassin will survive a no-confidence vote in parliament, his challenger and former premier Tun Dr MahathirMohamad said.
Veteran politician Mahathir, 94, led the country from 1981 to 2003, and made a surprise return to power in 2018 defeating an alliance than had governed for more than 60 years and one he himself had led as premier.
Mahathir said in an interview with the Malay-language Sinar Harian newspaper that he no longer commanded a majority in parliament after some supporters abandoned him to join Muhyiddin’s camp.“It will not succeed,” he said of the vote of no-confidence.Mahathir would have required the support of at least 112 lawmakers in the lower house of parliament to win the vote.
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