Today marks the first day of the five-year reign of Johor’s Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, who will be the seventeenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong. He replaced Pahang’s Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah whose reign was marked by political uncertainties and also the Covid-19 pandemic. Lawyer Andrew Khoo helps us understand the role of the Agong in Malaysia’s constitutional monarchy system.

Image credit: Bernama

Produced by: Chin Wai Lun

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Philip See

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Categories:  politics,  government

Tags:  Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar,  yang di-pertuan agong,