PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has announced that he will take on the Finance portfolio.
Meanwhile, UMNO president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Gabungan Parti Sarawak’s Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof have been appointed deputy prime ministers.
Zahid will also be rural development minister while Fadillah is reappointed plantations and commodities minister.
The new cabinet will be sworn in at 3pm tomorrow.
Here is the full list, arranged in alphabetical order:
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries – Mohamad Sabu
Ministry of Defence – Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan
Ministry of Digital Communications – Fahmi Fadzil
Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs – Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub
Ministry of Education – Fadhlina Sidek
Ministry of Finance – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim
Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir
Ministry of Health – Dr Zaliha Mustafa
Ministry of Higher Education – Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin
Ministry of Home Affairs – Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail
Ministry of Human Resources – Sivakumar Varatharaju Naidu
Ministry of International Trade and Industry – Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz
Ministry of Local Government – Nga Kor Ming
Ministry of National Unity – Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang
Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment, and Climate Change – Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
Ministry of Plantations and Commodities – Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof
Ministry of Tourism – Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing
Ministry of Transport – Anthony Loke
Ministry of Rural Development – Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Ministry of Science and Technology – Chang Lih Kang
Ministry of Women, Family, and Community Development – Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri
Ministry of Works – Alexander Nanta Linggi
Ministry of Youth and Sports – Hannah Yeoh
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Economy) – Rafizi Ramli
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reformation) – Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) – Datuk Mohd Naim Mokhtar
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) – Armizan Mohd Ali
In a televised address tonight, the Pakatan Harapan chairperson said the Cabinet would comprise 28 ministers, in 22 ministries, and four portfolios in the Prime Minister’s Department.
Pakatan Harapan has 15 ministers in the announced cabinet list, with eight from PKR, four from DAP, two from Amanah, and one from UPKO.
Meanwhile, six of the ministers are from BN, all of whom are from UMNO, while GPS has five ministers. GRS has one minister in the Cabinet.
One more minister – the Religious Affairs Minister Mohd Na’im Mokhtar – is not affiliated with any political parties. He is currently the Chief Judge of the Syariah Judiciary Department.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the Federal Territories minister will be announced later. – Dec 2, 2022
Main photo credit: Sadiq Asyraf/Prime Minister’s Office of Malaysia
