Mahathir's End Heralds Mukhriz's End
Pejuang president Mukhriz Mahathir has attributed his party’s poor performance at the Johor polls to a lack of recognition by voters and inadequate time to prepare. In his words, Pejuang was still a “new party” as it was only registered about seven months ago – yet would argue with such star power behind the party, it shouldn’t be that difficult to herald the return of Mahathir in a new party. Unrecognizability is a lame excuse especially for someone who has had every opportunity given to him, by an extremely famous father. After all, it is an open secret that Mahathir has spent a considerable amount of his post-retirement being mired in quid-pro-quo scandals involving his children. We all saw the subsequent brouhaha, with both sides changing the story in a tepid back and forth that led to little in the way of actual investigation by the authorities. But in all honesty, are we surprised that another member of the Mahathir clan became embroiled in another accusation of unfairly using th