page_title: Lim Guan Eng
section_title: Chief Minister of Penang
hierarchical_section_title: Lim Guan Eng / Political career / Chief Minister of Penang
caption_attribution_description: Bahasa Melayu: Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang Lim Guan Eng dari parti DAP, tiba untuk memberi sokongan kepada Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, calon PKR, semasa hari penamaan bagi pilihan raya kecil Pematang Pauh.English: Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng from the DAP party, arrived to give support for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the PKR candidate, during the nomination day for Pematang Pauh by-election
context_page_description: Lim Guan Eng is a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party currently serving as three-term Member of Parliament and three-term assemblyman representing Bagan and Air Putih respectively. Being the Secretary-General of DAP since 2004, he also served as the Chief Minister of Penang between 2008 and 2018 and Minister of Finance between 2018 and 2020.
context_section_description: In the 2008 Malaysian general election, the DAP-PKR-PAS coalition, later known as Pakatan Rakyat (PR), won 29 out of the 40 state assembly seats contested in Penang, defeating the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. The DAP won 19 seats, PKR 9 seats, and PAS 1. Even though Lim is not a Penangite, he was nominated to be the Chief Minister (CM) of Penang, replacing the former Chief Minister Dr. Koh Tsu Koon of Malaysian People's Movement Party (Gerakan). Other senior DAP leaders of Penang such as Lim Hock Seng, Phee Boon Poh, and Chow Kon Yeow were bypassed and were instead appointed as state executive council members. In the 2013 Malaysian general election, Pakatan Rakyat won a larger majority, gaining 30 out of the 40 state seats in Penang.
caption: Lim arrives to give support for Anwar Ibrahim during the nomination day for Permatang Pauh by-election in 2008.
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