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Mahathir warns king Covid-19 emergency order is turning Malays against him Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says the Covid-19 emergency order has turned the country into a ‘dictatorship’. Photo: Reuters
Malaysia s former leader Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday urged the country s king to revoke a Covid-19 state of emergency, saying the royal order - made in January on the advice of the government - was uncharacteristically turning the country s Malays against its royal families.
The emergency powers granted to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and the suspension of parliament had transformed the country into a dictatorship , the 95-year-old said.
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Malaysia’s two emergencies: why 2021’s freeze on democracy is not like the trouble of 1969 Liew Chin Tong Deserted roads in Kuala Lumpur after a lockdown and state of emergency were imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19. Photo: Reuters
Amid soaring Covid-19 cases, the prolonged political crisis in Malaysia since a parliamentary coup in February last year came to a head on Tuesday when a state of national emergency was declared for the first time since 1969. At the time, parliament was suspended after racial riots broke out between Malays and Chinese in Kuala Lumpur, leaving almost 200 people dead. It only reconvened in 1971.