{"id":50520,"date":"2022-11-24T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/anwar-ibrahim-appointed-malaysian-prime-minister-after-unprecedented-hung-parliament"},"modified":"2022-11-24T22:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:32:51","slug":"anwar-ibrahim-appointed-malaysian-prime-minister-after-unprecedented-hung-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50520","title":{"rendered":"Anwar Ibrahim becomes Malaysian prime minister after decades-long wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former deputy PM who spent nearly a decade in jail takes office after five days of post-election deadlock<\/p>\n<p>Anwar Ibrahim has been sworn in as the prime minister of Malaysia after five days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/19\/malaysian-elections-hung-parliament-beckons\">post-election deadlock<\/a> were broken in a moment his supporters say was two decades in the making.<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old rose from student activist to deputy prime minister in the 1990s, but was jailed on charges of corruption and \u201csodomy\u201d before returning to parliament as opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/anwar-ibrahim-appointed-malaysian-prime-minister-after-unprecedented-hung-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former deputy PM who spent nearly a decade in jail takes office after five days of post-election deadlockAnwar Ibrahim has been sworn in as the prime minister of Malaysia after five days of post-election deadlock were broken in a moment his supporters &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[1146,41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anwar-ibrahim","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\/50520","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50520\/revisions\/50530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}