Malaysia hit the headlines last weekend when its Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, offered his resignation to the King of Malaysia. His resignation came as a shock and plunges Malaysia back into political turmoil, as the succession plan, where Mohamad was due to hand over the reins to his former deputy Anwar Ibrahim in November of 2020, now lies in tatters. There have been some signs globally of political leadership being handed onto the next generations. This is epitomised by the imagery of Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar jogging in Dublin with Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, or New Zealand’s Prime Minister…
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