Muhiddin Yasin is the Prime Minister of Malaysia.The country’s king Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah has been appointed as the prime minister of Malaysia, ending all the drama. He will be sworn in as the eighth Prime Minister of the country tomorrow at 10:00 am local time.
The king unanimously announced this on Saturday. Earlier on February 24, the country’s 24-years-old Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed resigned abruptly. However, the king ordered him to be appointed interim prime minister until the appointment of a prime minister and the formation of a cabinet.
The king’s position in the country is decorative. Who would appear before the king with the support of most law enforcement; The king will appoint him as the Prime Minister. Malaysia’s civil society has said earlier that the new government will not be accepted in power instead of a democratically elected government without elections.
King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah had earlier chosen the Prime Minister and interviewed 222 MPs in Parliament. For the past two decades, Mahathir Mohammed and Anwar Ibrahim have been facing power struggles. However, the prime minister, who passed Anwar Ibrahim, is Muhiddin Yasin.
Muhithin Yasin was the Home Minister in Mahathir’s government. Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s party 11 PKR lawmaker has supported him to run for the post of Prime Minister. Mahathir’s party has already announced the name of Muhiddin as the prime ministerial candidate.
Mahathir’s sudden resignation as he secured his power was conceived in the political arena of the country. After his resignation, 73-year-old Anwar broke up with Ibrahim in his party alliance. The alliance came to power after defeating Najib Razak in the 28th elections.
Mahathir resigned after a weeklong drama on the Malaysian politics stage. The alliance that Anwar Ibrahim called ‘Pact of Hope’ won a historic victory in the election of 2018; It is alleged that Anwar’s opponents staged the drama within the alliance.
When Mahathir Mohamed resigned, Anwar Ibrahim was supposed to be a Malaysian. He is the former Deputy Prime Minister of the country. Anwar Ibrahim will be in power for some time – Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed made such a promise after the election of 2018. But he did not keep that promise.
News Room, February 29,2020