KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 12 -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has announced that the federal government will push for a new law to limit the tenure of the prime minister to two full terms, or a maximum of 10 years.

Here are seven things you need to know about the proposal.

1. Malaysia tried this before - but it was dropped. Why?

Malaysia previously attempted to introduce a two-term limit for the prime minister, but the effort was abandoned midway.

Based on the Hansard, or official record of Dewan Rakyat proceedings, this is what happened under two different governments led by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin:

On December 3, 2019, then minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of law, Datuk Liew Vui ...