What Democracies Can Learn From Malaysia

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Anwar Ibrahim returns home after being freed from politically motivated imprisonment
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What Democracies Can Learn From Malaysia.

 

Is it possible that the United States and Europe might learn something from Malaysia, a country long seen as a flawed semi-democracy?

 

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In elections earlier this month, Malaysians decisively voted out of office the political party that has been in power since Malaysia won its independence from the British in 1957.

 

And yes, the bums who were booted out of office were as corrupt as they come. 

 

For example, now former Prime Minister Najib Razak – and whom US President Donald Trump once called him “my favorite prime minister – long practiced strongman politics as well as is widely believed to looted his country’s treasury as well as took bribes to the tune of hundreds of millions of Singaporean dollars.

Source: What Democracies Can Learn From Malaysia

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