{"id":35566,"date":"2021-08-21T01:20:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/ismail-sabri-yaakob-appointed-as-malaysian-prime-minister"},"modified":"2021-08-21T01:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:20:23","slug":"ismail-sabri-yaakob-appointed-as-malaysian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35566","title":{"rendered":"Ismail Sabri Yaakob appointed as Malaysian prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional monarch names deputy PM in coalition to take over following resignation of Muhyiddin Yassin<\/p>\n<p>Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been named Malaysia\u2019s prime minister, as a scandal-mired party that previously governed for six decades reclaimed the leadership it lost in 2018\u2019s landmark election.<\/p>\n<p>Ismail Sabri, who will be sworn in on Saturday, was the deputy prime minister in the coalition led by Muhyiddin Yassin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/malaysian-prime-minister-resigns-but-remains-interim-leader\">Muhyiddin resigned on Monday<\/a> following months of political turmoil that culminated in the collapse of his majority in parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/ismail-sabri-yaakob-appointed-as-malaysian-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional monarch names deputy PM in coalition to take over following resignation of Muhyiddin YassinIsmail Sabri Yaakob has been named Malaysia\u2019s prime minister, as a scandal-mired party that previously governed for six decades reclaimed the lead&#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":[41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/35566","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=35566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35618,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35566\/revisions\/35618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}