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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.
The global COVID-19 pandemic spread to Malaysia in late January 2020. The first major local outbreak occurred at a Tablighi Jamaat religious event in Kuala Lumpur in late February 2020. [44] [45] As the pandemic emerged as a global crisis by March 2020, including in Malaysia, it has had major economic, social and political impacts. [9] [46]
The onset of the pandemic coincided with a political crisis in early 2020 which continued into 2021 as the spread of COVID-19 and emergency government measures exacerbated initially unrelated political instability, culminating in the resignation of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his cabinet in August 2021.
On 16 December 2020, Prime Minister Muhyiddin invoked a state of emergency to stop by-elections scheduled to be held in the Bugaya constituency of Sabah and the Gerik constituency in Perak scheduled for January 2021. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah had assented to the request to impose the states of emergency within these two electorates in ...
23 July – 8 August – Athletes from Malaysia competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which was postponed by a year due to COVID-19. 26 July - De facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan announced that the state of emergency will not be extended with all laws revoked as of 21 July, raising questions about the legality of the actions.
Phase 2 1 April 2020 – 14 April 2020 Phase 3 15 April 2020 – 28 April 2020 Phase 4 29 April 2020 – 3 May 2020 Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO/PKPB, 4 May 2020 – 9 June 2020) Phase 1 4 May 2020 – 12 May 2020 Phase 2 13 May 2020 – 9 June 2020 Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO/PKPP, 10 June 2020 – 31 March 2021) Phase 1
The College Football Playoff selection committee enters its final two weeks of deliberation with a host of consequential decisions thrust on the 13 members.
General elections were held in Malaysia on Saturday, 19 November 2022. [2] [3] The prospect of snap elections had been considered high due to the political crisis that had been ongoing since 2020; political instability caused by coalition or party switching among members of Parliament, combined with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, contributed to the resignation of two prime ministers and ...