{"id":15765,"date":"2020-03-13T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/has-malaysia-new-prime-minister-muhyiddin-mohamad-inherited-a-poisoned-chalice"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T05:00:51","slug":"has-malaysias-new-pm-inherited-a-poisoned-chalice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15765","title":{"rendered":"Has Malaysia&#8217;s new PM inherited a poisoned chalice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhyiddin Yassin faces big challenges \u2013 and some say he may be bad news for minorities<\/p>\n<p>When Malaysia\u2019s government plunged into chaos last month, some believed the country\u2019s veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad was likely to emerge an even more powerful political force. Instead, it was Muhyiddin Yassin, a much quieter figure, who was eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/malaysian-pm-sworn-in-amid-questions-over-legitimacy\">appointed prime minister<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Muhyiddin, a conservative Malay nationalist, is a low-profile and cautious politician, say analysts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/has-malaysia-new-prime-minister-muhyiddin-mohamad-inherited-a-poisoned-chalice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhyiddin Yassin faces big challenges \u2013 and some say he may be bad news for minoritiesWhen Malaysia\u2019s government plunged into chaos last month, some believed the country\u2019s veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad was likely to emerge an even more powerful polit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,41,1147,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mdb","category-asia-pacific","category-mahathir-mohamad","category-malaysia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15766,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}