# Anwar says the unity government will not repeal Penal Code section 377 Date: 2023 ## The fact In 2023 Prime Minister Anwar publicly restated that his government would not repeal Penal Code section 377 on carnal intercourse against the order of nature, citing the Malay-Muslim majority and coalition arithmetic. ## Context 377 is colonial-era statute. PAS and UMNO oppose repeal. He had himself been convicted under a related sexual-offence path — that 2015 judgment is a neighbour, not this speech. He does not sit as every syariah court. Federal Court 2015 is the neighbouring personal-legal row. The 1975 ban is a neighbouring civic row. The Prime Minister of Malaysia advises the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, chairs Cabinet, and is appointed under Articles 40 and 43 of the Federal Constitution. He does not write Bank Negara Malaysia policy rates, does not sit as every state menteri besar, and does not author a United States or China statute. A 1999–2018 prosecution or pardon cluster is not a 2023 subsidy. Allegation is not a completed personal conviction unless a court so held. A 2027 general election is not this page’s completed Fact. As of 27 August 2026 he remains prime minister. ## Evidence and sources Prime Minister's Office Malaysia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights): a completed refusal to repeal 377 is a dated legal-status freeze for same-sex conduct. ## What is established and what is not Established: 2023 public line that 377 will not be repealed, independently reported. Not established: that every later raid was uniquely ordered that day, or that hudud was thereby federalised. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Parliament would have to repeal. PAS and UMNO share the veto weather. Police and syariah courts enforce neighbouring files.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Anwar says the unity government will not repeal Penal Code section 377, not a later speech about Anwar says the unity government will not repeal Penal Code section 377. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Anwar says the unity government will not repeal Penal Code section 377 on 2023-09-15 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister's Office Malaysia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Anwar says the unity government will not repeal Penal Code section 377 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He set the political line. Parliament would have to repeal. PAS and UMNO share the veto weather. Police and syariah courts enforce neighbouring files. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Anwar Ibrahim: https://factrail.ai/people/anwar-ibrahim ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-pm-anwar-says-cannot-change-lgbt-laws-2023/ - https://www.pmo.gov.my/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/my-anwar-377-2023