The events of late-1998 marked the beginning of Anwar's descent within UMNO and his subsequent ouster from the party and from Malaysian politics.Īnwar Ibrahim stated he is confident that he can win over enough government legislators in a parliamentary vote in September to end over 50 years of rule by one party. 'Cronyism' was identified by Anwar as a major cause of corruption and misappropriation of funds in the country. Issues such as how Malaysia would respond to a financial crisis were often at the forefront of this conflict.Anwar's frontal attack against what he described as the widespread culture of and within UMNO (and the ruling coalition as a whole) angered Mahathir, as did his attempts to dismantle the policies that Mahathir had set up. In Mahathir's absence, Anwar had independently taken radical steps to improve the country's governing mechanisms which were in direct conflict with Mahathir's capitalist policies. Secretary of Defense (right) meets with Anwar Ibrahim (left) in his office.In 1991 Anwar was appointed Minister of Finance.Īnwar was being groomed to succeed Mahathir as prime minister, and frequently alluded in public to his 'son-father' relationship with Mahathir in early 1997, Mahathir appointed Anwar to be acting Prime Minister while he took a two-month holiday.Towards the end of the 1990s, however, the relationship with Mahathir had begun to deteriorate, triggered by their conflicting views on governance. Non-Malays criticized this move as it would cause the younger generation to be detached from the national language, since they would attribute it to being something that belongs to the Malays and not to Malaysians.
One of the major changes that he did was to rename the national language from Bahasa Malaysia to.
By then, speculation was rife about Anwar's ascent to the Deputy Prime Minister's position as it was a commonly-occurring phenomenon in Malaysia for the Education Minister to assume the position of Deputy PM in the near future.During his tenure as Education Minister, Anwar introduced numerous pro-Malay policies in the national school curriculum. He moved up the political ranks quickly: his first ministerial office was that of Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports in 1983 after that, he headed the agriculture ministry in 1984 before becoming Minister of Education in 1986. In 1982, Anwar, who was the founding leader and second president of a youth Islamic organisation called, shocked his liberal supporters by joining the (UMNO), led by Mahathir bin Mohamad, who had become prime minister in 1981.
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