From lawyer to prime minister
Ismail Sabri Yaacob has been in politics for more than 20 years and is the first prime minister born after Independence. – The Malaysian Insight pic, August 20, 2021.
ISMAIL Sabri Yaacob, who will be sworn in tomorrow, is the first prime minister born after Malaysia achieved independence in 1957. He was born on January 18, 1960 in Temerloh, Pahang and will be sworn in tomorrow as the country’s 9th prime minister following the resignation of Muhyiddin Yassin and the collapse of the Perikatan Nasional government.
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