PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is the greatest obstacle to non-ethnic based politics in contemporary Malaysia, according to an academic.
Prof James Chin of University of Tasmania wrote in a chapter in the soon to be launched book titled, Malaysia Post-Mahathir: A Decade of Change, that in the decade after his retirement, there "is little doubt that Mahathir still sees himself as the ultimate arbitrator of Malaysian politics. For him, Malaysia belongs to Umno, an Umno with his imprint.”