ISLAMABAD – Malaysian King Sultan Muhammad V has abdicated after just twoyears on the throne.
The palace said in a statement Sunday that the 49-year-old Sultan MuhammadV had resigned with immediate effect, cutting short his five-year term. Noreason was given in the statement.
It’s the first abdication in Malaysia’s history.
Sultan Muhammad V, ruler of northeast Kelantan state, was installed inDecember 2016 as one of Malaysia’s youngest constitutional monarchs.
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He is said to have married a 25-year-old former Russian beauty queen inNovember. The reports in Russian and British media and on social mediafeatured pictures of the wedding, which reportedly took place in Moscow.
Under a unique system maintained since Malaysia’s independence from Britainin 1957, nine hereditary state rulers take turns as king for five-yearterms.
