Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob is facing criticism after confirming a controversial politician will be made the country’s ambassador to Indonesia, sparking calls from the opposition and public for the appointment to be revoked. The prime minister on Wednesday (May 18) said that Indonesian President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi approved of Malaysia’s decision to appoint 74-year-old Tajuddin Abdul Rahman.
(Bloomberg) In 2018, ex-Malaysian leader Najib Razak looked like a dead man walking: He lost his job after a shock election defeat and was arrested in connection with a scandal that allegedly saw billions in stolen cash laundered through superyachts, Hollywood films and even a Pablo Picasso paint
Muhyiddin keeps Malaysian politics in lockdown
A pick-up in the countryâs vaccine rollout should give the PM an overwhelming incentive to keep buying time â ideally by using extended emergency rule to keep politics, as it were, under lockdown.
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Just over six months ago, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin talked the countryâs monarch into declaring a state of emergency â the first in the country since the devastating racial riots of 1969.
Muhyiddin said the emergency was to give his government the political stability and the legal powers needed to enforce COVID-19 control strategies. At the time, a spike in cases had threatened to derail what had been overall an effective response to the initial wave of the pandemic in 2020.