Malaysia Five-Time Election Winner Mahathir Warns on Rushed Vote

Malaysia’s ruling National Front coalition should hold off calling elections to allow more time to win support from groups such as the country’s ethnic Chinese, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said.

Current leader Najib Razak might secure a simple majority in parliament without winning back the two-thirds control lost in 2008 if elections were held now, Mahathir, 86, said in an interview at his office yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. Najib would struggle to win back opposition-held states, he said.