{"id":251875,"date":"2024-01-18T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=251875"},"modified":"2024-01-18T19:51:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:51:52","slug":"malaysian-pm-anwar-sticks-with-decision-to-forego-salary-until-economy-fully-recovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=251875","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian PM Anwar sticks with decision to forego salary until economy fully recovers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CYBERJAYA (Malaysia), Jan 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim remains steadfast in his decision not to take his salary for the positions he has held since November 2022 as long as the country&#8217;s economy has not fully recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anwar, who is also the Finance Minister, said that the same stance is held by the Cabinet Ministers regarding the 20 percent salary cut each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in conjunction with the Cabinet retreat in Cyberjaya, a satellite city on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday, Anwar said that this decision would be upheld by the government until the country&#8217;s economy fully rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So far, I announce that I do not take a salary and there is a 20 percent deduction for others (Cabinet Ministers) as long as the economy has not fully recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And now there is a change (in the economy), but it is not possible yet (to take the salary),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his first press conference as Prime Minister on November 24, 2022, Anwar had said that he would not take a salary for his positions (Prime Minister and Finance Minister), describing it as the first step to gain the people&#8217;s confidence in his leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CYBERJAYA (Malaysia), Jan 18 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim remains steadfast in his decision not to take his salary for the positions he has held since November 2022 as long as the country&#8217;s economy has not fully recovered. Anwar, who is also the Finance Minister, said that the same stance is held by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":216464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251876,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251875\/revisions\/251876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}