The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has consented for Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob not to undergo a confidence vote in Parliament, de facto Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said.

According to him, this was conveyed during the weekly cabinet meeting.

"The Federal Constitution has given wide powers to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to appoint the prime minister who he believes commands a majority and at the time, 114 MPs supported (Ismail Sabri).

"Every MP met with the Agong, and I do not think...