VIDEO: Hishamuddin Rais on winning GE14

Kean Wong - 15 May, 2018

Writer–activist Hishamuddin Rais was once jailed without charge by Mahathir Mohamad. He talks to our GE14 editor Kean Wong about why he was a key campaigner to make Mahathir prime minister again, and what’s in store for the Pakatan Harapan government.

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Kean Wong
Kean Wong is Contributing Editor at New Mandala, overseeing Malaysia's 2018 elections. Contact him with tips and submissions at [email protected], and via @keanmwong at Twitter and Instagram.
New Mandala is supported by the Australian National University (ANU), a world-leading centre of research and teaching on Southeast Asia that has hosted the site since its founding in 2006. New Mandala's editors make editorial decisions independently of the ANU, and the views expressed at New Mandala are solely those of contributors and do not represent the institutional position(s) of the ANU or any of its constituent parts.
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