Mohd Suhaimi Abdullah on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Mohd Suhaimi bin Abdullah (born 15 July 1966) is a Malaysian
Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (2024)
* :
** Justice of the Peace (JP) (2017)
* :
** 
Knight Companion of the Order of Loyalty to Negeri Sembilan (DSNS) – Dato' (1998)
politician
A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...
who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Langkawi
Langkawi, officially known as Langkawi, the Jewel of Kedah (), is a duty-free island and an archipelago of 99 islands (plus five small islands visible only at low tide in the Strait of Malacca) located some 30 km off the coast of northwe ...
since November 2022. He served as the Senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ...
from May 2014 to May 2017 and again from August 2017 to August 2020. He is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party
The Malaysian United Indigenous Party ( Malay: ''Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia''; abbrev: BERSATU or PPBM) is a nationalist political party in Malaysia. The party was preceded by the United Indigenous Association of Malaysia ( Malay: ) and ...
(BERSATU), a component party of the Perikatan Nasional
Perikatan Nasional (PN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Right-wing politics, right-wing and Far-right politics, far-right political parties. It is the second largest political coalition in Dewan Rakyat w ...
(PN) and formerly Pakatan Harapan
Pakatan Harapan (PH; stylised as HARAPAN; ) is a Malaysian Parliamentary group, political coalition consisting of Centre-left politics, centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has led ...
(PH) coalitions and was a member of the United Malays National Organisation
The United Malays National Organisation (Abbreviation, abbrev: UMNO; , PEKEMBAR) is a Conservatism, conservative, Nationalism, Malay nationalist political party in Malaysia. As the oldest national political party in the country (since its ince ...
(UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional
Barisan Nasional (BN; ) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1974 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties to succeed the Alliance Party. It is the third largest political coalition with 30 seats in ...
(BN) coalition. He is the State Chairman of BERSATU of Kedah
Kedah (), also known by its honorific Darul Aman (Islam), Aman (دار الأمان; Arabic for 'The Safe Abode') and historically as Queda, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia, located in the northwestern part of ...
. On 28 November 2018, Mohd Suhaimi left UMNO for BERSATU.
Political career
Senator (2014–2020)
On 30 May 2014, Mohd Suhaimi was elected to theParliament
In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...
as the Senator representing Kedah for the first term after being nominated and approved by the Kedah State Legislative Assembly
The Kedah State Legislative Assembly () is the state legislature of the Malaysian state of Kedah. It is a unicameral institution, consisting of a total of 36 lawmakers representing single-member constituencies throughout the state.
Members of t ...
.
On 15 August 2017, Mohd Suhaimi was reelected as Senator representing Kedah for the second term after being renominated and reapproved by the assembly.
Member of Parliament (since 2022)
In the 2022 general election, Mohd Suhaimi made his electoral debut after being nominated by PN to contest for the Langkawi federal seat. He won the seat and was elected to the Parliament as the Langkawi MP for the first term after defeating Armishah Siraj of BN, Zabidi Yahya of PH, formerPrime Minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
Mahathir Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad (; ; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author and doctor who was respectively the fourth and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and from 2018 to 2020. He was the ...
of the Homeland Fighters Party
The Homeland Fighter's Party (, PEJUANG) is a Right-wing politics, right-wing, nationalist political party of Malaysia, formed in August 2020 by former Prime Minister of Malaysia, prime minister Mahathir Mohamad in opposition to then ruling P ...
(PEJUANG) and independent
Independent or Independents may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups
* Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States
* Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ...
candidate Abd Kadir Sainudin by a majority of 13,518 votes. As the elected MP for Langkawi, he was infamous for sexually insulting Seputeh
Seputeh is a federal constituency in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat
The Dewan Rakyat (; Jawi script, Jawi: ), is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Mala ...
MP Teresa Kok
Teresa Kok Suh Sim (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ''Kwo̍k Su-tshim''; born 31 March 1964) is a Malaysian people, Malaysian politician who has served as Deputy Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (Malaysia), Public Accounts Committee (PAC) since ...
in parliament by inviting her to come to Langkawi without wearing anything.
Election results
Honours
Honours of Malaysia
* : ** Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (2024)
* :
** Justice of the Peace (JP) (2017)
* :
** Knight Companion of the Order of Loyalty to Negeri Sembilan (DSNS) – Dato' (1998)
Footnotes
References