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Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: إسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia since August 2021.A Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004, Ismail is the vice-president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition which is aligned with the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. As of a result of the ongoing 2020–21 Malaysian political crisis, he was formally appointed and sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 August 2021 following the resignation of his predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin. He is the first Prime Minister of Malaysia born after the independence of Malaya in 1957, the first ever former Leader of the Opposition in Malaysia to become Prime Minister, the first ever Prime Minister who is not the highest in rank in a political party or coalition. Ismail served in several cabinet positions in the BN administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak, from March 2008 to its 2018 general election loss. He was the 15th Leader of the Opposition in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration from March 2019 to its collapse in February 2020 amid the 2020 Malaysian political crisis. In the PN government, he was prominent in the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in his roles as Senior Minister for Security, and later during a 40-day stint as Deputy Prime Minister. He led a faction of his party (UMNO) that continued supporting Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in June 2021, when the party withdrew its support over the government's handling of the pandemic. After this culminated in the collapse of the government and Muhyiddin's resignation, he successfully entered negotiations to become Prime Minister in August 2021 after garnering the support of the most MPs. As Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri lifted the Movement Control Order following the expansion of the vaccination programme and oversaw the Twelfth Malaysia Plan. In April 2022, UMNO announced Ismail Sabri as its candidate for prime minister in the 15th Malaysian general election, due to be held by 19 November 2022.Ismail Sabri has attracted controversy for his comments in support of ethnic Malay pre-eminence in Malaysia.