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The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis (also known as the 1988 judicial crisis) was a series of events that began with United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party elections in 1987 and ended with the suspension and the eventual removal of the Lord President of the Supreme Court, Tun Salleh Abas, from his seat.
The monarch of Malaysia is the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (YDPA), commonly referred to as the Supreme King of Malaysia. Malaysia is a constitutional elective monarchy, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is selected for a five-year term from among the nine Sultans of the Malay states. The other four states that do not have monarch kings, are ruled by ...
What most distinguished the pro-justice agitation of Malaysia in the late 1990s from the prototypical mobilization of civil society-based pressure groups or prior coalition-building ventures of Malaysian political parties was the depth of the interaction between political parties.
This crisis ended in 2022 and Malaysian political crisis continued in the State of Sabah known as 2023 Kinabalu Move. [ 6 ] In February 2020, a development commonly dubbed the Sheraton Move , saw the fall of the ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government and the resignation of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad after 22 months in power.
The "Kajang Move" (Malay: Langkah Kajang, also known as Selangor's political crisis, Selangor's MB crisis or Khalid Move) was a political manoeuvre attempted in Malaysia in 2014. The manoeuvre sought to topple the 14th Menteri Besar of Selangor, Khalid Ibrahim , and install the national opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as his replacement.
In early 2020, Malaysia faced a political crisis, [20] concurrent with the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to political, health, social, and economic disruptions. [21] [22] The 2022 general election resulted in Malaysia's first hung parliament, leading to Anwar Ibrahim's appointment as Prime Minister on November 24, 2022. [23] [24] [25] [26]
In 1948, the Communists and the British colonial government in Malaya entered a period of guerrilla fighting which has become known to history as the Malayan Emergency. The name derives from the state of emergency declared by the colonial administration in June 1948 to extend the powers of the police and military.
1 March – Muhyiddin Yassin was sworn in as the 8th Prime Minister of Malaysia in front of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Istana Negara. [ 14 ] 3 March – The High Court dismissed the prosecution’s application to initiate contempt of court proceedings after former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi made a public apology.