Former Malaysian interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be sworn in as the coun...
KUALA LUMPUR - Former Malaysian interior minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be sworn in as the country’s next prime minister on Sunday, after he secured support from a Malay nationalist party that sacked him in 2015.
Here are some facts about Muhyiddin, 72, who is from the majority Malay Muslim community and once courted controversy in the multi-racial country by saying that he was Malay first. -His father was an influential religious teacher in his hometown. Graduated from the University of Malaya in 1970 in Economics and Malay Studies.
-Formerly he was with the United Malays National Organization , the long-ruling establishment party that was defeated in the last general election. He joined it in 1971. Muhyiddin will be Malaysia’s 8th prime minister with support from UMNO.
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