He excelled as finance minister, was imprisoned for political reasons and denigrated as a CIA agent: Now Anwar Ibrahim has been tasked with forming a government.
Reached his goal after 25 dramatic years: Anwar Ibrahim, the new Prime Minister of Malaysia.
The die seemed to have been cast long ago and the unflattering political verdict had also been made: Anwar Ibrahim, the overambitious primeval talent of Malaysian politics, would go down in history as an eternal opposition politician and notorious loser. He, who was repeatedly imprisoned as a political prisoner and always stood in the long shadow of his former mentor Mahathir Mohamad, is – so everyone said – meanwhile too old for a comeback.