{"id":63861,"date":"2020-03-01T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T05:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63861"},"modified":"2020-03-01T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T05:48:23","slug":"istana-negara-the-focus-of-malaysians-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=63861","title":{"rendered":"Istana Negara The Focus Of Malaysians Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; It was an early morning start at the Istana Negara (National Palace) Sunday with Malaysians tuning in to the event at the palace\u00a0where\u00a0the President of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu)\u00a0Muhyiddin Yassin took his oath\u00a0as the country\u2019s 8th\u00a0Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both members of the local and foreign&nbsp;media took to \u201ccamping\u201d at the grounds of the Istana Negara\u2019s main gate to cover&nbsp;the historic event which came following a week of political turmoil in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourists, both foreign and domestic, were also seen taking the opportunity to have their pictures taken before the ceremony started at&nbsp;10.33 in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local television stations meanwhile provided live broadcast&nbsp;of the ceremony where the King, Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah swore in Muhyiddin as the new prime minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appointment of Muhyiddin, 72, who is the&nbsp;Member Parliament of Pagoh, was in accordance with&nbsp;Articles 40(2)(a) and 43(2)(a) of the Federal Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was appointed to the post following the resignation of former premier&nbsp;Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Feb 24, which triggered a political crisis in the country and the downfall of Pakatan Harapan (PH) as the ruling party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; It was an early morning start at the Istana Negara (National Palace) Sunday with Malaysians tuning in to the event at the palace\u00a0where\u00a0the President of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu)\u00a0Muhyiddin Yassin took his oath\u00a0as the country\u2019s 8th\u00a0Prime Minister. Both members of the local and foreign&nbsp;media took to \u201ccamping\u201d at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":63666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63861"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}