COMMENT Save Malaysia can yet become the country’s most potent and unifying campaign to bring real and lasting change to our country. But the jury of public opinion is as divided as ever because its leader stands as its biggest obstacle to success.

The doctor, who has morphed from prime mover of the Citizens’ Declaration into leader of the campaign, needs to swallow some very bitter medicine.

If Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s true intention is to save Malaysia, he must stand only slightly aside, to publicly anoint and support as leader someone who remains untainted by his own political history...