The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah will not grant an audience to anyone for a week as he is under observation at a hospital, a palace official said, as opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim seeks a meeting with him to form a new government.

Anwar said this week he has secured a "strong, formidable" majority from lawmakers in parliament to oust Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. But he has to convince the king that he has the numbers to form a government...