{"id":50528,"date":"2022-11-24T22:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/anwar-ibrahim-malaysia-new-prime-minister-road-to-power"},"modified":"2022-11-24T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:44:45","slug":"anwar-ibrahim-from-protest-leader-and-prisoner-to-malaysias-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50528","title":{"rendered":"Anwar Ibrahim: from protest leader and prisoner to Malaysia\u2019s PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anwar has been a rising star, led a movement for change and served time in jail en route to top job<\/p>\n<p>It has been a bumpy road to the pinnacle of power for Anwar Ibrahim, once jailed for almost 10 years on trumped-up charges but on Thursday finally achieving his dream of the Malaysian premiership.<\/p>\n<p>In his decades-long quest for the top job, the 75-year-old has tasted political triumph and defeat, led street protests for democratic reforms and strung together a multi-ethnic opposition coalition while behind bars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/anwar-ibrahim-malaysia-new-prime-minister-road-to-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anwar has been a rising star, led a movement for change and served time in jail en route to top jobIt has been a bumpy road to the pinnacle of power for Anwar Ibrahim, once jailed for almost 10 years on trumped-up charges but on Thursday finally achiev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3454,"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-50528","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\/50528","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\/3454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50529,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50528\/revisions\/50529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}