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Mahathir Quits the United Malays National Organisation

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May 19, 2008
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Outraged at an order by Malaysia’s cabinet to investigate him on charges of judicial corruption, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has resigned from the United Malays National Organisation, to which he had belonged since 1946, and demanded that other UMNO members follow him out of the party until his successor is overthrown.

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