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Prime Minister of Malaysia

head of government of Malaysia

12 dated entries naming Prime Minister of Malaysia, drawn from 10 separate years between 1947 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Malaysian Prime Minister in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1947August 10 – Anwar Ibrahim, 10th Prime Minister of Malaysiasource
  • 1953July 23 – Najib Razak, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysiasource
  • 1965August 7 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, recommends the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia following a deterioration of PAP–UMNO relations, negotiating its separation with Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore.source
  • 1970September 22 – Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.source
  • 197022 September – Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj resigned as prime minister.source
  • 1981July 10 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia.source

21st century

  • 2001His passing was announced by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad via television and radio broadcasts. He announced a seven-days period of national mourning and directed that flags be flown at half-mast throughout that time.source
  • 2018May 9 – The opposition-led Pakatan Harapan coalition, led by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, secures a parliamentary majority in the Malaysian Parliament as the result of the 2018 Malaysian general election, ending the 61-year rule of the Barisan Nasional coalition since independence in 1957.source
  • 2020February 24 – The Pakatan Harapan coalition government of Malaysia collapses and is replaced by the Perikatan Nasional coalition. Muhyiddin Yassin becomes the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia on March 1.source
  • 2020September 14 – Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak is listed on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) online database of corruption offenders convicted locally. His name at the top of the first page of the MACC Corruption Offenders Database.source
  • 2021September 13 – Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the main Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan, sign a confidence and supply agreement ending the 18-month political crisis that has led to the fall of two successive governments in Malaysia.source
  • 2022November 19 – The 2022 Malaysian general election results in a hung parliament, which is the first in the country's history. Long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is appointed by Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah as prime minister five days later to break the political deadlock and form a unity government.source

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