{"id":8756,"date":"2024-01-31T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/?p=8756"},"modified":"2024-01-31T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T12:03:59","slug":"sultan-ibrahim-sworn-in-as-malaysias-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2024\/01\/31\/sultan-ibrahim-sworn-in-as-malaysias-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Sultan Ibrahim sworn in as Malaysia\u2019s king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of the southern state of Johor was sworn in as Malaysia\u2019s 17th king in a ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday (January 31).<\/p>\n<p>In a televised ceremony, Ibrahim took his oath and signed the instruments of office with the country\u2019s other hereditary rulers witnessing the event.<\/p>\n<p>Sultan Nazrin Shah, ruler of Perak state, will serve as the deputy head of state for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was present at the ceremony along with his cabinet ministers to witness the swearing-in of the new king.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment came after his predecessor Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, ruler of Pahang state completed his term on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adv-img text-center d-print-none\">Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy, with nine sultans or rulers, who head their respective state and act as the religious leader, taking turns to serve as the king for a five-year term.<\/div>\n<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of the southern state of Johor was sworn in as Malaysia\u2019s 17th king in a ceremony at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday (January 31). In a televised ceremony, Ibrahim took his oath and signed the instruments of office with the country\u2019s other hereditary rulers witnessing the event. Sultan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}