Anwar back home after surgery; works minister to retire from Parliament in next election

 

Politics

• Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has been discharged from hospital after undergoing elective abdominal hernia surgery.

  He shared a photo on Facebook of himself reading from his home office last night with the caption “Alhamdulillah, back home”.

• Works Minister Alexander Nanta Linggi plans to stop contesting for the Kapit parliamentary seat, which he has held since 1999.

  

  Works Minister Alexander Nanta Linggi

  Instead, he intends to contest in a new state seat in the constituency should Sarawak’s electoral redelineation process be completed before the next state election.

  “I feel it is time we gave the younger generation a chance in Parliament,” he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times yesterday, adding that he would like to focus on state-level development going forward. - Mkini