POLITICS: DPM bombshell ahead of crucial Umno meet


ABOUT three hours before the crucial Umno supreme council meeting on Wednesday (July 7) night, the Prime Minister's Office announced that Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister.

The Bera MP and Defence Minister was elevated from his Senior Minister (Security) post.

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