Najib Razak Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysi ...

formed the first Najib cabinet after being invited by Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin to begin a new government following the resignation of the previous

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Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Tun Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi ( Jawi: عبد الله بن احمد بدوي; born 26 November 1939) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia from October 2003 to April 2009. He was also the sixth president of ...

. It was the 18th

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formed since

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. Prior to the resignation, Abdullah led (as

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) the third Abdullah cabinet, a coalition government that consisted of members of the component parties of

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. Najib announced his inaugural Cabinet on 9 April 2009. Former

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chief executive officer and managing director Idris Jala was added to the line-up on 28 August 2009. Najib streamlined the Cabinet to 28 members from 32 in the previous

administration. His new line-up came under criticism from previous Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir. This is a list of the members of the first cabinet of the sixth

Composition

Full members

The federal cabinet consisted of the following ministers:

Deputy ministers

References

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Composition

Full members

Deputy ministers

See also

References