Shabudin bin Yahaya ( Jawi: شهاب الدين بن يحيى; born 12 November 1965) is a

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who has served as Chairman of the

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(AIM) since September 2021. He served as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Parliament and Law in the

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(PN) administration under former Prime Minister

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and former Minister

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from July 2020 to August 2021, Secretary of the Government Backbenchers Club (BBC) from September 2021 to June 2022, Secretary of the PN Government Backbenchers Club (PNBBC) from January 2021 to collapse of the PN government in August 2021, Chairman of the

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briefly from May 2020 to July 2020,

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(MP) for Tasek Gelugor from May 2013 to November 2022 and Member of the

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(MLA) for Permatang Berangan from March 2004 to May 2013. He is a member of the

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(BERSATU), a component party of the PN and formerly

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(PH) coalitions and was a member of

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(UMNO), a component party of the

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(BN) coalition. After the defeat of BN to PH in the 2018 general election, he resigned from UMNO in 2018 and joined BERSATU in 2019. Shabudin is also a former Syariah Court judge. He is notable as he controversially opposed an amendment to be added in the Sexual Offences Against Children Bill 2017 and stated that the people who performed

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are able to marry the victim without any punishment.

Politics

Debate of Sexual Offences Against Children Bill 2017

At about 4:10pm

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( UTC+08:00) on 4 April 2017,

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, a member of parliament for

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had proposed for a new amendment (15A) for the Sexual Offences Against Children Bill 2017, stating that

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should be banned. She stated that Malaysia had signed a United Nations resolution during October 2013. Malaysia also had signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the 16th article of the treaty writes the freedom to choose a spouse and to enter into marriage only with free and full consent. She emphasised that Malaysian's children cannot have the capacity to have free and full consent because they still cannot smoke cigarette, drive a car and vote until they reached the age of 21. She later cited that at 30 November 2015, the deputy of the

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made a statement that the government does not support marriage under 18, the Prime Minister's Department expressed the serious issues of child marriage on 12 April 2016 and the Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia,

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stated that the Malaysian have the power to increase the minimum age of marriage from 16 to 18. She also gave out some cases of adults marrying underage children in Malaysia and claimed that the bride divorced soon after and some of their husband is actually a rapist. The chances of them dying is five times higher than a normal adult woman and they cannot continue their studies after marrying. She stated that the other

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and

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's minimum marriage age is 18 years old and asked why Malaysia cannot be the same as theirs.

Retirement

On 19 June 2022, he had announced that he will retire from politics to give way for young people.

Election results

Honours

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Companion Class II of the Order of Malacca (DPSM) – Datuk (2013)

References