{"id":253187,"date":"2024-01-31T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=253187"},"modified":"2024-01-31T17:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:39:52","slug":"sultan-ibrahim-of-johor-sworn-in-as-malaysias-new-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=253187","title":{"rendered":"Sultan Ibrahim Of Johor Sworn In As Malaysia&#8217;s New King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar of Johor state was sworn in as Malaysia&#8217;s 17th king, in a ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a televised ceremony, Sultan Ibrahim took his oath and signed the instruments of office, with the country&#8217;s other nine hereditary rulers witnessing the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sultan Nazrin Shah, ruler of Perak state, will serve as the deputy head of state for the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, was present at the ceremony along with his cabinet ministers to witness the swearing-in of the new king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His appointment came after his predecessor, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, ruler of Pahang state, completed his five-year term yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy, with nine sultans or rulers, who head their respective state and act as religious leaders, taking turns to serve as king for a five-year term.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar of Johor state was sworn in as Malaysia&#8217;s 17th king, in a ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur today. In a televised ceremony, Sultan Ibrahim took his oath and signed the instruments of office, with the country&#8217;s other nine hereditary rulers witnessing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":253189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,287,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253187"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253188,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253187\/revisions\/253188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}