Anwar Ibrahim named new Malaysian PM
Anwar Ibrahim, leader of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, has been named as the prime minister of Malaysia, the national palace said on Thursday.
The swearing-in ceremony for Mr Ibrahim will take place at 5:00 p.m. local time (0900 GMT) at the national palace, the national palace said in a statement.
The palace said Malaysia needs a stable government that will reinvigorate the economy and the country’s development.
It added that Malaysia had been in a state of political stalemate following the results of an indecisive snap national polls on November 19, with no political coalition or party securing enough seats in the country’s lower house of parliament to form a government on its own.
However, Malaysian King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah held several audiences with the heads of major political coalitions to break the stalemate and convened a conference of rulers to deliberate on the matter.
Following the meeting, Mr Ibrahim, whose party coalition had secured 82 seats in the polls making his group the biggest, was named as the country’s new prime minister, allowing the formation of a new government.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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