Anwar and Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad put aside their 20-year feud to help their four-party alliance win elections in May, leading to the country’s first change of power since independence from Britain in 1957. Anwar, 70, was convicted of sodomy in 2015 in a case that he said was politically motivated. The alliance had agreed that Mahathir would be prime minister and then hand over the reins to Anwar. “Let Prime Minister Mahathir conduct the affairs of the state. The government has clamped down on corruption by making the country’s anti-corruption body accountable to Parliament instead of just the prime minister, Anwar said.

Source: National Post September 15, 2018 09:33 UTC