Third Anwar Ibrahim Cabinet

The third Anwar cabinet is the incumbent state government in Selangor. The cabinet was sworn in on 9 January 2020 after Anwar Ibrahim was appointed as Chief Minister by the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah al-Haj. It is the 13th Cabinet of Selangor replacing the Second Anwar Cabinet. Besides Anwar, the third Anwar cabinet is also led by Deputy Chief Minister Mohd Azmin Ali who is the State Chairman for Kesatuan Bersatu (KB) in Selangor and Vice-President of KB.

It was formed after negotiations stalled between KB, Liberal National Party (PLN) and Malaysian People's Alliance (IKATAN) due to disagreements over the budget allocation and the introduction and management of nuclear power plants. The cabinet is a grand coalition between KB and PKD which are the major centre-right and centre-left parties respectively. It comprises 7 PKD ministers and 4 KB ministers.

Background and Formation
Preliminary results were released on 29 December and they showed a resounding victory for PKD. KB, BS and IKATAN faced a total net loss of 8 seats which relegated IKATAN to the weakest party in Selangor in terms of seats. Meanwhile, the PKD and PLN made gains receiving 5 seats and 3 seats respectively, with PKD being the main benefactor of KB and IKATAN's miserable losses. Voter Turnout was at a record high of 78.94% which could have been attributed to the left's gains.

The next day, Azmin's KB initiated talks with PLN and IKATAN to form a 39-seat coalition government in a bid to oust the PKD-led Selangor governments. BS had announced they were going into opposition to recoup grassroots support after approval ratings for BS had dipped to 4% during the midst of the second Anwar Ibrahim tenure. Talks for the KB-PLN-IKATAN eventually fell out when on 7 January 2020, PLN and IKATAN had a squabble over the management and increase of Selangor's vast nuclear power sector with PLN supported allocating more capita towards so to spur nuclear energy production while IKATAN vehemently opposed it. KB was unable to reconcile. Ultimately, Johan Ghazalli's IKATAN pulled out from formal negotiations leaving KB and PLN only able to command a minority of 21 seats.

Following this, KB Selangor held a meeting to decide the party's direction from here on out. On the 11th of January, Anwar proposed to form a Grand Coalition between KB and PKD with the backing of his party. KB left with not many decided to begin exploratory talks and later, formal negotiations. Eventually reaching a coalition agreement outlining all policies, PKD approved the coalition agreement by 80.98% (132 yes votes, 31 no votes and 2 abstentions) while KB approved the coalition agreement by 63.14% (149 yes votes, 87 no votes and 4 abstentions).