By Noor Shamsiah Mohamed
KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Malaysians are all ready to witness tomorrow yet another historic ceremony that usually takes place every five years – the installation of its new King or the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah of Pahang will be installed as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Istana Negara in a ceremony unique to Malaysia that draws the attention of people the world over.
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong or King is elected for a five-year term from among the nine Malay Rulers, on a rotational basis agreed upon by the rulers themselves. These are the rulers of Perlis, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Johor, Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan.
Sultan Abdullah will set in motion the second round of the rotational system that has been in practice since independence in 1957. He succeeds Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan who stepped down as the head of state on Jan 6.
Sultan Abdullah was proclaimed as the sixth Sultan of Pahang on Jan 15, succeeding his father, the late Paduka Ayahanda Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah.
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