
In unveiling his Cabinet, Anwar also announced that Tengku Zafrul Aziz will be international trade and industry minister.
The last time Malaysia had a prime minister who served as finance minister simultaneously was Najib Razak.
In its 2018 general election manifesto, Pakatan Harapan had pledged that the prime minister would not hold another ministerial portfolio simultaneously.
Last week, Anwar told Bloomberg that he had not considered keeping the finance portfolio for himself when he was deciding on his Cabinet.
Anwar was a former finance minister and deputy to the country’s longest-serving prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, before his political rise was cut short after being fired in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis following a fallout with Mahathir.
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