Former 🇲🇾 PM @chedetofficial turned 100 on July 10, feted by family & friends at a doa selamat in a KL mosque.
In the Islamic calendar, dusk on Thursday is considered Friday night and auspicious.
He became the longest-serving Malaysian prime minister and elected to lead another government 15 years later — a testament to his political acumen and standing.
Tun Dr Mahathir first became PM at 56 in 1981 and retired aged 78 in 2003 after four successive electoral wins.
He was reelected PM, aged 93, in 2018 by bringing down his former Barisan Nasional coalition. But he resigned in 2020 when he lost his parliamentary majority in a political putsch.
In the last polls in 2022, Dr Mahathir and his party candidates all lost their election deposits.
But age and defeat has not blunted his dry wit, sarcasm and opinion about anything in the country and the world.
And he remains popular among a certain demographic in the equatorial country of 35 million Malaysians.
His wife, Tun Dr Hasmah Ali, turns 99 on July 12.
