Malaysia has announced that its next and 17th king will be Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar from the southern State of Johor.
The keeper of the Royal Seal said in a statement that Sultan Ibrahim was chosen by the country’s nine sultans at a session of the Conference of Rulers on Friday and will be installed on January 31st, 2024.
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong or King of Kings is a constitutional monarch, but since the historic elections of 2018 and the revolving door of ruling coalitions that followed, the king has taken a more active role in politics.
King Al-Sultan Abdullah has used the monarch’s discretionary powers to choose the country’s last three prime ministers, including after the election in 2022 when no single party won a parliamentary majority.
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