The last general election under Mahathir's leadership of the UMNO and Barisan Nasional was held in November 1999 . Although BN as a whole fared extremely well with three fourths of the seats obtained in the national legislature, the UMNO' s strengthit was reduced from 94 to 72 . The Barisan 's Alternatif coalition of the PAS (Partai Islam se Malaysia) and Samangat formed a strong opposition winning 42 seats. The major decline of UMNO was Mahathir ' s treatment of his one time deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.
In 1990 , Mahathir gave the country a thirty year mega-strategic plan, called Wawasan (vision) 2020 for transforming Malaysia by the year 2020 into a fully developed society not only in the economic sense but also in the political, moral, social and psychological senses.