Ismail Sabri Yaakob

Ismail Sabri Yaakob

Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: إسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب‎; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the ninth prime minister of Malaysia since August 2021.A Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004, he is the vice-president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition which is aligned with the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. He served as the 13th Deputy Prime Minister from July 2021 to August 2021, serving for only 40 days, and several cabinet positions in successive governments from 2008 to 2021. As of a result of the ongoing 2020–21 Malaysian political crisis, he was formally appointed and sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 August 2021 following the resignation of his predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin. He is the first Prime Minister of Malaysia born after the independence of Malaya in 1957, the first ever former Leader of the Opposition in Malaysia to become Prime Minister and the first ever Prime Minister who is not the highest in rank in a political party or coalition. He served in several cabinet positions in the BN administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak from March 2008 to its 2018 general election loss, including Minister of Rural and Regional Development, Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry, Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism and Minister of Youth and Sports. He was the 15th Leader of the Opposition in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration from March 2019 to its collapse in February 2020 amid the 2020 Malaysian political crisis. In the PN government, he was appointed Senior Minister in charge of Security from March 2020 to his promotion to the deputy premiership in July 2021, during which he

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