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She is also the first female Deputy Prime Minister in Malaysia.
Pakatan Harapan's prime minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim watched the swearing-in ceremony of his former nemesis and now ally Mahathir Mohamad from his hospital bed on Thursday, reported the Malay Mail Online.
Application to release and pardon Anwar was one of the six pledges of PH GE14 manifesto.
Mahathir today also announced a council of senior advisers to help the new government.
Dr Mahathir said that Pakatan would immediately begin the process of getting Anwar's pardon formalised.
Mahathir, who had ruled with an iron fist for over two decades, cut ties with BN due to allegations that the coalition's leader and his ex-protege Najib Razak oversaw the pillaging of sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.
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Anwar is still serving a five-year jail sentence at Sungai Buloh Prison after he was convicted of sodomising his personal assistant. The alliance registered a shock win in Wednesday's election, ending the ruling coalition's 60-year unbroken grip on power.
Mahathir said he will announced a cabinet on Saturday that would include himself, Wan Azizah and 10 others, including the ministers for finance, foreign affairs, defence and home affairs. Malaysian Cabinets have in the past had more than 30 ministers.
"Whether Anwar will be part of the cabinet or not will be decided when the time comes", he said.
Asked about 1MDB on Friday, Mahathir accused Attorney-General Mohamed Ali Apandi - who cleared Najib over the scandal - of having "undermined his own credibility".
"He, in fact, has hidden evidence of wrongdoing, and that is wrong in law".
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