All 82 newly-elected Sarawak assemblymen sworn in

The Sarawak state legislative assembly building.

KUCHING: All the 82 newly-elected Sarawak state assemblymen on Tuesday took their oath of office before State Legislative Assembly Speaker Datuk Amar Mohammad Asfia Awang Nassar.

Twenty-nine of them are new faces, and they include those who won the 11 new seats. A redelineation exercise had increased the number of seats in the state assembly from 71 to 82.