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PM Dr Mahathir umumkan Kabinet baharu

May 12, 2018

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tun m — Sebelum ini, Tun Mahathir telah mengumumkan akan mendedahkan kabinet baharu di bawah pentadbiran beliau yang bermula pada Khamis. - Gambar Astro Awani

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PM umum TPM Dr Wan Azizah dan 3 Menteri, Guan Eng Menteri Kewangan, Mat Sabu Pertahanan, Muhyiddin KDN

Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad mengumumkan tiga daripada 7 Menteri dalam Kabinet baharu pentadbiran beliau.

Lim Guan Eng dari DAP dilantik sebagai Menteri Kewangan, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dari PPBM sebagai Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri dan Mohamad Sabu (AMANAH) sebagai Menteri Pertahanan.

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Perdana Menteri turut mengumumkan Majlis Penasihat dianggotai oleh pakar ekonomi dan ahli akademik termasuk Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar, Tun Daim Zainuddin, Tan Sri Robert Kuok, Dr Jowo Kwame Sundaram dan Tan Sri Hassan Merican.

In an unprecedented move, Malaysia’s newly-minted 7^th Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced 3 out of the 10 core ministries and a “council of elders” as part of his new Cabinet.

They are Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as the Home Minister, while DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng will helm the Finance Ministry and Parti Amanah Negara president Mohamad Sabu will take on the Defence Ministry.

The other seven ministers that have yet to be named are Economy, Education, Multimedia Science and Technology; Rural Development, Public Works, Transport and Foreign.

The “council of elders” consist former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin, former Bank Negara Governor Tan Sri Zeti Aziz, former Petronas CEO Tan Sri Hassan Merican, Hong Kong-based Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok, and economics expert Prof Jomo Kwame Sundaram.