PETALING JAYA, Aug 18 (Sin Chew Daily) – 31 Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia Members of Parliament and four pro-Perikatan Nasional independent MPs will support Umno vice president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the country's next prime minister.

Bersatu's MP for Bandar Tun Razak Kamarudin Jaffar confirms that party president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has instructed all the party's MPs to nominate Ismail Sabri as prime minister candidate in their statutory declarations.

Another Bersatu supreme council member, Negeri Sembilan chairman and MP for Kuala Pilah Datuk Eddin Syazlee Shith has also confirmed this.

He insisted that it was the Bersatu supreme council's decision to support Ismail Sabri as prime minister candidate.