Ismail Sabri Yaakob

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Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: اسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who was the ninth prime minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022. A member of UMNO, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004. Ismail previously was the deputy prime minister in 2021. Born in Pahang, Ismail started his career as a lawyer. He became active in UMNO before entering the Parliament of Malaysia as the Member of Parliament for Bera in 2004. Currently, he is the Division Chief of Bera of UMNO, a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He also served as the vice president of UMNO from June 2018 to March 2023. As a result from the 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis, he was formally appointed and sworn in as prime minister on 21 August 2021 following the resignation of his predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin. Ismail served in several cabinet positions in the BN administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak, from...

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