Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: اسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022. He is both the shortest-serving prime minister (served for 15 months), and shortest-serving deputy prime minister (served for 40 days). He is also the first prime minister born after the independence of Malaya, the first former Leader of the Opposition to become prime minister, and the only prime minister to serve without a deputy.[1][2][3]
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9th Prime Minister of Malaysia | |||||||||||||||||||
In office 21 August 2021 – 24 November 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
Monarch | Abdullah | ||||||||||||||||||
Deputy | None | ||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Muhyiddin Yassin | ||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Anwar Ibrahim | ||||||||||||||||||
15th Leader of the Opposition | |||||||||||||||||||
In office 12 March 2019 – 24 February 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Mahathir Mohamad | ||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi | ||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Anwar Ibrahim | ||||||||||||||||||
Vice President of the United Malays National Organisation | |||||||||||||||||||
In office 30 June 2018 – 18 March 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi | ||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (1960-01-18) 18 January 1960 (age 64) Temerloh, Pahang, Federation of Malaya | ||||||||||||||||||
Political party | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) (since 1987) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Children | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Malaya (LLB) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Website | ismailsabri | ||||||||||||||||||
A Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004, Ismail is the Division Chief of Bera of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He also served as the vice president of UMNO from June 2018 to March 2023. As of a result of the ongoing 2020–21 Malaysian political crisis, he was formally appointed and sworn in as prime minister on 21 August 2021 following the resignation of his predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin.[4]
Ismail served as in several cabinet positions in the BN administration under former two Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak, from March 2008 until its 2018 general election loss.[5] He was the 15th Leader of the Opposition in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration from March 2019 to its collapse in February 2020 amid the resignation of Mahathir Mohamad due to Malaysian political crisis. In the PN government, he was prominent in Muhyiddin's response to COVID-19 pandemic in his roles as Senior Minister for Security, and later during a 40-day stint as Deputy Prime Minister. He led a faction of his party (UMNO) that continued supporting Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in June 2021, when the party withdrew its support over the government's handling response to the pandemic.
On 21 August 2021 after this culminated in the collapse of the government and with Muhyiddin's resignation, he was successfully entered negotiations to become 9th Prime Minister of Malaysia after garnering the support of the most MPs.[1][6] As Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri lifted all MCO up in October of the same year following the expansion of COVID-19 vaccination programme and oversaw the Twelfth Malaysia Plan. In November 2022, Ismail stepped down as leader of the BN and decided not to seek a term as Prime Minister in the upcoming general election; he was succeeded by Anwar Ibrahim, who was elected the 10th Prime Minister after he won his elected power for the first time since Mahathir Mohamad in 2018.
Ismail Sabri has attracted controversy for his comments in support of ethnic Malay pre-eminence in Malaysia.[7][8][9]