{"id":8234,"date":"2021-01-14T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3117752\/malaysian-opposition-leader-anwar-ibrahim-urges-king-end"},"modified":"2021-01-14T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T09:37:24","slug":"malaysian-opposition-leader-anwar-ibrahim-says-government-misled-king-over-coronavirus-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/malaysian-opposition-leader-anwar-ibrahim-says-government-misled-king-over-coronavirus-state-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says government misled king over coronavirus state of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday said he would submit an appeal to the king to end a state of emergency imposed to fight the coronavirus, which he described as a move by the prime minister to cling to power.Malaysia\u2019s King Al-Sultan Abdullah on Tuesday declared a national state of emergency to curb the spread of the virus and suspended parliament, which the opposition said was Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin\u2019s ploy to retain control amid a power struggle.In a letter sent\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3117752\/malaysian-opposition-leader-anwar-ibrahim-urges-king-end\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday said he would submit an appeal to the king to end a state of emergency imposed to fight the coronavirus, which he described as a move by the prime minister to cling to power.Malaysia\u2019s King Al-Sult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}