Mahathir, set a retirement date or we’ll do it for you: Anwar ally Rafizi on Malaysia’s power transition

A retirement date is likely to be imposed on Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad if he does not commit to a timeline on handing power to Anwar Ibrahim by early next year, one of the drafters of the succession pact between the two former rivals has said.Rafizi Ramli, widely viewed as a key confidante of Anwar, told a conference in Singapore on Thursday that the ruling coalition’s top leaders would be forced to take such action as the Malaysian public would by then have lost patience with…