{"id":6052,"date":"2021-08-16T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T08:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T08:04:44","slug":"pm-muhyiddin-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/08\/16\/pm-muhyiddin-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Muhyiddin resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today resigned after only 17 months of being the country\u2019s 8th Prime Minister.<br \/>\nAlso resigned were 29 members of his\u00a0Perikatan Nasional (PN) Cabinet.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is obvious that I have lost the majority support. So, there is no longer a need to ascertain my legitimacy as the Prime Minister in Parliament.<br \/>\n\u201cSo\u00a0today, I have tendered my resignation as Prime Minister and also the resignation of my entire Cabinet as required by the Federal Constitution,\u201d he said in a special announcement aired live on television\u00a0today.<br \/>\nThe Pagoh MP presented his letter of resignation to the\u00a0Yang di-Pertuan Agong\u00a0Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah during an audience with the King at Istana Negara earlier today.<br \/>\nMuhyiddin, who is also Bersatu president, was sworn in as Prime Minister on March 1 last year following the resignation of Tun\u00a0Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Feb 24.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today resigned after only 17 months of being the country\u2019s 8th Prime Minister. Also resigned were 29 members of his\u00a0Perikatan Nasional (PN) Cabinet. \u201cIt is obvious that I have lost the majority support. So, there is no longer a need to ascertain my legitimacy as the Prime Minister in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}