Speaking to the media during the sidelines of the Inland Revenue Board’s “meet the customer” event today, Lim said that the Cabinet has agreed on who will temporarily fill the shoes of Maszlee Malik, who resigned as education minister last week.

“We did make a decision on that, but let the prime minister announce it,” said Lim, who attended the press conference after coming from the weekly Cabinet meeting.

Handpicked by Dr Mahathir Mohamad 20 months ago, Maszlee stepped down from his post last Thursday after a string of controversial decisions.

Among them were the introduction of Jawi in vernacular schools, pre-university matriculation quotas, making Sarawak schools allegedly the ground for “dakwah” and a university exam question on controversial Indian Muslim preacher Zakir Naik.