Kuala Lumpur - QNA
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak took the oath of office as prime minister before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah at Balai Rong Seri, Istana Negara at 4.07pm today. Najib, 59, accompanied by wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, repeated history when took the oath before the same king who witnessed the oath taking by his father, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, in 1970 as the second prime minister of Malaysia. In yesterday’s general election, Barisan Nasional (BN) was returned to power when it won 133 of the 222 parliamentary seats to form the new federal government, Malaysian News Agency (Bernama) reported.