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Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and the Leader of the Opposition Anwar Ibrahim of the main opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan sign a confidence and supply agreement ending the 18-month political crisis that has led to the fall of two successive governments.
2021-09-13

Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob enters quarantine following a close contact with a COVID-19 patient.
2021-08-30

Ismail Sabri Yaakob is appointed as the 9th prime minister of Malaysia, following the resignation of Muhyiddin Yassin amid the collapse of the government.
2021-08-20

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin resigns from office, as a result of the ruling Perikatan Nasional coalition government's collapse. Yassin will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed.
2021-08-16

Reports emerge of the imminent resignation of Prime Minister of Malaysia Muhyiddin Yassin on August 16.
2021-08-15

The Dewan Rakyat suspends their special parliamentary meeting for two weeks after COVID-19 cases were detected in the parliament. Malaysian opposition MPs, including Anwar Ibrahim and Mahathir Mohamad, gathered in Merdeka Square after being blocked by police from entering the parliament to protest the suspension. The MPs demanded for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yasin to resign.
2021-08-2

The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the largest party in the ruling Perikatan Nasional coalition, withdraws its support for Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and calls for his resignation. The move occurred despite Yassin appointing UMNO vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob as Deputy Prime Minister and major party stalwart Hishammuddin Hussein as Senior Security Minister earlier in the day in order to prevent this. UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says that the decision was due to Yassin's poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Hamidi specifically singling out the ineffective and contradictory implementation of the lockdowns as the main point of contention.
2021-07-7

Yang di-Pertuan Agong King Al-Sultan Abdullah rejects a proposal by embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to declare a state of emergency to fight a surge of COVID-19 cases.
2020-10-25

The Pakatan Harapan alliance chooses 92-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad as their candidate Prime Minister in the upcoming Malaysian general election. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be released from jail on June 8. Mahathir and Anwar join forces in the election.
2018-01-7