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Dr. Tan Kee Kwong (; born 1947) is a

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politician of Chinese origin. He served as a

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for

Wangsa Maju Wangsa Maju is a township and a constituency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This area is surrounded by Setapak, Taman Melati and Gombak district in Selangor. Wangsa Maju is one of the largest townships in Kuala Lumpur and consists of many section ...

representing

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(PKR) of

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coalition between 2013 and 2018. Previously, he was the

Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia The Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia ( en, Malaysian People's Movement Party, commonly abbreviated as GERAKAN or less commonly as PGRM) is a liberal political party in Malaysia. Formed in 1968, Gerakan gained prominence in the 1969 general electi ...

(Gerakan) Member of Parliament for

Segambut Segambut is a sub-district and a parliamentary constituency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. From the high-end condominiums of Mont Kiara and Sri Hartamas to the middle-class areas of Taman Sri Segambut and Bandar Manjalara, and the rural areas ...

for three terms from 1995 to 2008 and was the deputy minister of Land and Cooperative Development from 1999 to 2004 in the

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(BN) federal government. He later joined PKR in 2008 and currently sat on the party disciplinary board.

Early life and professional career

Tan is born and raised in

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. His father, Tan Sri

Tan Chee Khoon Tan Chee Khoon (; 4 March 1919 – 14 October 1996) was a major figure in Malaysian politics from 1959 to 1978, at one point being nicknamed "Mr. Opposition" for the outspoken views he presented in Parliament. He was the official Leader of the ...

is the founder of the Gerakan party and the former official leader of opposition between 1964 and 1978. Tan was educated at the

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, Kuala Lumpur, from 1960 to 1966. He was its School Captain in his final year. A medical doctor by profession, Tan graduated from

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and worked in

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during 1977 and 1981. He then worked for two years in

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, practising community medicine with a voluntary

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. He later returned to Malaysia and started a private clinic on

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in Kuala Lumpur.

Politics

In 1995, he joined Gerakan two month before the general election and Tan Sri Dato' Alex Lee nominated him as a candidate in the new created parliamentary seat of Segambut. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Segambut in the 1995 election and was re-elected in

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and

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elections. Tan did not contest in the March 2008 general election. He later quit Gerakan and joined PKR in August 2008.Cheah, Royce. 2008
Former Segambut MP joins PKR
''The Star'', 6 September. Accessed 6 September 2008. In the 2013 election, he contested and was elected as a Member of Parliament from Wangsa Maju on PKR ticket.

Election results

References

External links

Facebook page of Tan Kee Kwong
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tan, Kee Kwong Kuala Lumpur politicians Members of the Dewan Rakyat Malaysian Methodists People's Justice Party (Malaysia) politicians Malaysian people of Teochew descent Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent Living people 1947 births