{"id":73426,"date":"2020-05-07T23:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=73426"},"modified":"2020-05-07T23:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:13:55","slug":"ph-names-anwar-ibrahim-as-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=73426","title":{"rendered":"PH names Anwar Ibrahim as Opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council has agreed to name Port Dickson Member of Parliament (MP) Anwar Ibrahim as the Oppostion Leader, said PH secretariat chief\u00a0Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement Thursday, he said the convention for naming the Opposition Leader was to give priority to the party in the opposition bloc with the most number of MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, the selection of the Opposition Leader is also done by taking into consideration the views of all MPs in the opposition bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDAP, which has the most MPs, has informed the PH presidential council that it did not want the post of Opposition Leader,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saifuddin Nasution said letters on this matter had been delivered by hand to the offices of the&nbsp;Dewan Rakyat (lower house of Parliament) Speaker and Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department&nbsp;(Parliament and Law) on Monday and today&nbsp;respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council has agreed to name Port Dickson Member of Parliament (MP) Anwar Ibrahim as the Oppostion Leader, said PH secretariat chief\u00a0Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. In a statement Thursday, he said the convention for naming the Opposition Leader was to give priority to the party in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}