# Dewan Rakyat passes a motion of confidence in Anwar’s premiership

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 19 December 2022 the Dewan Rakyat passed a motion of confidence in Anwar, tabled by Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof, by voice vote after a special sitting. Government whip weather claimed about 148 seats. The opposition declined a bloc count.

## Context

Muhyiddin had disputed the appointment. A 16 December cooperation pact sat as parent. Speaker Johari Abdul presided. He did not sit as every MP.

Oath 24 November is the parent office. Zahid’s DPM appointment is a neighbour coalition file.

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

Parliament of Malaysia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed confidence motion after a hung parliament records legislative backing, remaining the voice-vote leak named.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 19 December 2022 confidence motion passed by voice vote, independently reported.

Not established: that 148 uniquely voted in a recorded division — the opposition declined a bloc count — or a unique later 2027 coefficient.

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.

The Speaker declared the ayes. He was the subject of the motion. Coalition partners supplied voices.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Dewan Rakyat passes a motion of confidence in Anwar’s premiership, not a later speech about Dewan Rakyat passes a motion of confidence in Anwar’s premiership.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Dewan Rakyat passes a motion of confidence in Anwar’s premiership on 2022-12-19 is not a licence to treat every later Parliament of 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 Dewan Rakyat passes a motion of confidence in Anwar’s premiership into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Fadillah tabled. The Speaker declared the ayes. He was the subject of the motion. Coalition partners supplied voices. 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

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-pm-anwar-wins-motion-confidence-parliament-2022-12-19/
- https://www.parlimen.gov.my/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/my-anwar-confidence-2022