10:57AM PM leaves the palace, winds down the car window and waves to the press.
09:59AM PM arrives at Istana Negara
09:55AM King arrives at Istana Negara
The transition of power from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak begins Thursday as he has an audience with the King to seek permission to resign.
Reporters and a small group of people gathered outside the palace as Abdullah drove in to meet the Yang diPertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin who had arrived minutes earlier.
Abdullah did not stop to speak to the press.
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak will be sworn in as the sixth prime minister on Friday in a planned power transition that has been one year in the making.
The king has already consented to Najib's appointment, the government's chief secretary, Mohamad Sidek Hassan, had said.
Abdullah, who became the the country’s fifth premier in October 2003, was pressured to step down after the ruling National Front coalition suffered its worst results in the March 8 general elections last year when it lost its two-thirds majority in Parliament.
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