Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad tells of his aspiration for the advisory role of Pakatan Harapan if the coalition comes into power but he objects to local elections, citing it is unsafe for the country to create Chinese-ruled urban and Malay-ruled rural areas.

At a forum dubbed 'Hardtalk', organised last night to replace the debate between Mahathir and Umno minister Nazri Abdul Aziz, which was cancelled by police allegedly for security reasons, Mahathir shared his vision of a post-Najib era.

Mahathir hopes Harapan will not reject his advice just like his successors Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Abdul Razak did...