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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Najib reshuffles Cabinet, dropping five ministers including deputy Muhyiddin







KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is to reshuffle his Cabinet this week, dropping five ministers including his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin, it was reported on  Tuesday.

Najib is said to have met the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to present his new cabinet line-up and details of the reshuffle could be out as soon as Tuesday afternoon, Malaysiakini news portal reported, quoting the Malay-language Utusan Online, an Umno party mouthpiece.

The Malaysian Insider, citing government sources, reported that Najib will drop five out of the 35-strong slate of ministers, including his deputy Muhyiddin, who has been critical of the prime minister's handling of state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

Umno's popular vice-president and Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is expected to be the new deputy prime minister and will keep his home minister portfolio, sources said.

The news portal said two other Umno ministers - vice-president and Rural and Regional Development Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal, and Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Hasan Malek, will also be dropped in the mid-term review of Najib's cabinet.

The remaining two people expected to be out are Natural Resources and Environment Minister G. Palanivel, who has been stripped of his Malaysian Indian Congress presidency and membership, and Senator Idris Jala, the government efficiency unit Pemandu chief executive.

Muhyiddin was widely expected to be dropped after he renewed his criticism of 1MDB at the Cheras Umno division annual meeting on Sunday. He said Umno is suffering from a perception crisis from the 1MDB controversy and would lose a general election if one is held now.

"I speak the truth. If the Parliament is dissolved tomorrow we won't win the general election. There has been research that says we will find it hard to to win the next general election,'' he said.

Malaysian Insider also reported that Muhyiddin revealed that he had asked  Najib  to step down as chairman of the board of advisers of  the 1MDB but the latter ignored his advice. Muhyiddin said he had no ill intentions by suggesting this, but had not wanted Najib’s name to be tarnished because of his involvement with the debt-ridden state investment fund.

The Wall Street Journal reported on July 3 that US$700 million (S$956 million) had been transferred from 1MDB to Mr Najib’s personal accounts. The prime minister had denied using state funds for his own personal use.

MINISTERS
 
Najib Abdul Razak - Prime minister and finance minister

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi - Deputy prime minister and home minister

Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah - Finance minister II

Liow Tiong Lai - Transport minister

Nazri Abdul Aziz - Tourism and culture minister

Hishammuddin Hussein - Defence minister

Mustapa Mohamed - International trade and industries minister

Ong Ka Chuan - International trade and industry minister II

Maximus Johnity Ongkili - Energy, green technology and water minister

Amar Douglas Uggah Embas - Plantation industries and Commodities minister

Ahmad Shabery Cheek - Agriculture and agro-based industries minister

Ismail Sabri Yaakob - Rural and regional development minister

Anifah Aman - Foreign minister

Wilfred Madius Tangau - Science, technology and innovation minister

Rohani Abdul Karim - Women and family development minister

Fadillah Yusof - Works minister

Richard Riot Anak Jaem - Human resource minister

Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor - Federal territories minister

Idris Jusoh - Higher education minister

Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar - Youth and sports minister

Abdul Rahman Dahlan - Housing and local government minister

Hamzah Zainudin - Domestic trade, cooperatives and consumerism minister

Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar - Natural resources and environment minister

Mahdzir Khalid - Education minister

Mohd Salleh Said Keruak - Communications and multimedia minister

Mah Siew Keong - Minister in the prime minister's department

Azalina Othman Said - Minister in the prime minister's department

Nancy Shukri - Minister in the prime minister's department

Abdul Wahid Omar - Minister in the prime minister's department

Wee Ka Siong - Minister in the prime minister's department

Shahidan Kassim - Minister in the prime minister's department

Paul Low Seng Kuan - Minister in the prime minister's department

Joseph Entulu Anak Belaun - Minister in the prime minister's department

Idris Jala - Minister in the prime minister's department

Panglima Joseph Kurup - Minister in the prime minister's department

DEPUTY MINISTERS

Razali Ibrahim - Deputy minister in the prime minister's department

Chua Tee Yong - Deputy finance minister

Johari Abdul Ghani - Deputy finance minister

Nur Jazlan Mohamed - Deputy home minister

Masir Anak Kujat - Deputy home minister

Ermieyati Samsudin - Deputy tourism and culture minister

Johari Baharum - Deputy defence minister

Ahmad Maslan - Deputy international trade and industries minister

Lee Chee Leong - Deputy international trade and industries minister

James Dawos Mamit - Deputy energy, green technology and water minister

Noriah Kasnon - Deputy plantation industries and Commodities minister

Tajuddin Abdul Rahman - Deputy agriculture and agro-based industries minister

Alexander Nanta Linggi - Deputy rural and regional development minister

Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub - Deputy rural and regional development minister

Reezal Merican Naina Merican - Deputy foreign minister

Azizah Panglima Mohd Dun - Deputy women and family development minister

Chew Mei Fun - Deputy women and family development minister

Abu Bakar Mohamad Diah - Deputy science, technology and innovation minister

Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin - Deputy works minister

Ismail Abd Muttalib - Deputy human resource minister

Loga Bala Mohan Jaganathan - Deputy federal territories minister

Mary Yap Kain Ching - Deputy higher education minister

M Saravanan - Deputy youth and sports minister

Halimah Mohd Sadique - Deputy housing and local government minister

Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah - Deputy domestic trade, cooperations and consumerism minister

Hamim Samuri - Deputy natural resources and environment minister

P Kamalanathan - Deputy education minister

Chong Sin Woon - Deputy education minister

Jailani Johari - Deputy communications and multimedia minister

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