PM hopeful 2024 will be a brighter year for the people

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has expressed hope that 2024 will usher in a brighter future for the people, with the Unity Government focusing on economic development to ensure their well-being.

Anwar, who is also Finance Minister, said efforts to spur national economic growth would remain the focus of the government to ease the people's burden in various aspects like inflation and cost of living, apart from ensuring quality education and healthcare.

In this regard, Anwar urged the Cabinet ministers, senior officers, enforcement agencies, security bodies, civil servants and the private sector to intensify efforts aimed at turning Malaysia into a great country in the region.

"As we draw the curtain on 2023, it is appropriate for me to start by giving a summary of what has been announced to the public, that our economic growth has been maintained at four per cent.

"This is among the best, but there are other blessings and successes, including the reduction of inflation to below two per cent and drop in the unemployment rate to a very low level," he said in a video shared on his Facebook tonight.