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Shamsul Iskandar Md. Akin
Shamsul Iskandar @ Yusre bin Mohd Akin ( Jawi: شمس الإسكندر @ يسري بن محمد عقين; born 29 December 1974) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Senior Political Secretary to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022. He served as the Deputy Minister of Primary Industries in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Teresa Kok Suh Sim from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hang Tuah Jaya from May 2018 to November 2022 and for Bukit Katil from May 2013 to May 2018. He is a member and was Information Chief, Spokesperson as well as Vice-President of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition. Background Shamsul Iskandar is married with three children. For his primary education, he went to Sekolah Kebangsaan Kesang Tua. He received his secondary education at Sekolah Menengah Keb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malay Styles And Titles
The Malay language has a complex system of Style (manner of address), styles, titles and honorifics which are used extensively in Brunei, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Singapore. Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, few provinces in the Philippines and several provinces in Indonesia regularly award honorary and life titles. What follows in this article is specific to the Malaysian system. References to Brunei and Indonesia are given when pertinent. In Malaysia, all non-hereditary titles can be granted to both men and women. Every title has a form of address which can be used by the wife of the title holder. This form is not used by the husband of a titled woman; such a woman will bear a title which is the same as a titled man. Former usage Singapore, whose Malay royalty was abolished by the Singapore in the Straits Settlements, British colonial government in 1891, has adopted civic titles for its leaders. Much of the Philippines was History of the Philippines (900–1521), historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hang Tuah Jaya (federal Constituency)
Hang Tuah Jaya is a federal constituency in Central Melaka District, Melaka Tengah District and Jasin District, Malacca, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 2018. The federal constituency was created in the 2018 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics History Polling districts According to the federal gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Hang Tuah Jaya constituency is divided into 24 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members Local governments & postcodes Election results References * {{Malaysian federal constituencies Malacca federal constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewan Rakyat
The Dewan Rakyat (; Jawi script, Jawi: ), is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Malaysia, Parliament which is the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitution of Malaysia. The Dewan Rakyat sits in the Malaysian Houses of Parliament, Houses of Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, along with the Dewan Negara, the upper house. The Dewan Rakyat is a directly Election, elected body consisting of 222 members known as Member of parliament, Members of Parliament (MPs). Members are elected by first-past-the-post voting with one member from each List of Malaysian electoral districts, federal constituency. Members hold their seats until the Dissolution of parliament, Dewan Rakyat is dissolved, the term of which is Constitutionalism, constitutionally limited to five years after an Elections in Malaysia, election. The number of seats each States and federal territories of Malaysia, state or territory is entitled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Malaysian General Election
General elections were held in Malaysia on Sunday, 5 May 2013. Voting took place in all 222 parliamentary constituencies, each electing one MP to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 505 state constituencies in 12 of the 13 states (excluding Sarawak) on the same day. The elections were the first since Najib Razak became Prime Minister in 2009. The unofficial opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition led by Anwar Ibrahim received a majority of the vote, with its three member parties collectively receiving 50.9% of the vote. However, they won only 89 of the 222 seats. The incumbent governing alliance, Barisan Nasional, received 47.4% of the vote and won 133 seats, giving Najib a second term in office. This was at the time the best performance by the opposition against the Barisan Nasional and the first time Barisan Nasional had not received the most votes in a general election. Because Barisan Nasional won a majority despite receiving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 inception in 1946), UMNO has been known as Malaysia's "Grand Old Party". UMNO is a founding and the principal dominant member of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, which taken along with its predecessor Alliance Party (Malaysia), Alliance, had been the main governing party of Malaysia from the Federation of Malaya Independence Act 1957, independence of Malaya in 1957 until its defeat in the 2018 Malaysian general election, 2018 general election. From 1957 to 2018, every Prime Minister of Malaysia was also the President of the United Malays National Organisation, President of UMNO. It has since returned to power twice as a result of the 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis, 2020-2022 Malaysian political crisis, firstly as a partner in a Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the Dewan Rakyat after Pakatan Harapan (PH) with 82 seats and Perikatan Nasional (PN) with 74 seats. The coalition consists of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), and United Sabah People's Party (PBRS). The Barisan Nasional coalition employs the same inter-communal governing model of its predecessor the Alliance Party but on a wider scale, with up to 14 communal political parties involved in the coalition at one point. It dominated Malaysian politics for over thirty years after it was founded. Taken together with its predecessor Alliance, it had a combined period of rule of almost 61 years from 1957 to 2018, and was considered the longest ruling coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Md Sirat Abu
Datuk Md Sirat bin Abu (born 11 April 1959) is a Malaysian politician and a former Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Bukit Katil constituency in the state of Melaka. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party in the governing Barisan Nasional coalition. Md Sirat was elected to federal Parliament in the 2008 election, having been nominated by UMNO to contest the seat ahead of its incumbent member Ruddin Ab Ghani. Percentage figures are calculated based on total turnout. He had earlier served as President of the Melaka Municipal Council and political secretary to the Chief Minister of Melaka, Mohd Ali Rustam. He was dropped from UMNO's list of candidates for the 2013 Malaysian general election in favour of Mohd Ali, who was seeking to move to the federal parliament. Mohd Ali's move failed when the seat fell to the People's Justice Party's Shamsul Iskandar Md. Akin. Election results Honours * : ** Officer of the Order of the Defender of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Katil (federal Constituency)
Bukit Katil was a federal constituency in Malacca, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat The Dewan Rakyat (; Jawi script, Jawi: ), is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Malaysia, Parliament which is the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitu ... from 2004 to 2018. The federal constituency was created in the 2003 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. History It was abolished in 2018 when it was redistributed. Representation history State constituency Election results References * {{reflist Defunct Malacca federal constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Malaysian General Election
General elections were held in Malaysia on Wednesday, 9 May 2018. At stake were all 222 seats in the Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of parliament. The 13th Parliament was dissolved by Prime Minister Najib Razak on 7 April 2018. It would have been automatically dissolved on 24 June 2018, five years after the first meeting of the first session of the 13th Parliament of Malaysia on 24 June 2013. In an unprecedented victory, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, which had been the country's federal opposition prior to the elections, won a majority in the Dewan Rakyat together with the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN), with PH and WARISAN together winning 121 seats. The elections marked the first time in Malaysia's history that the ruling party was voted out of power. The Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition had previously enjoyed an uninterrupted reign over the country since Malaya's independence in 1957, but this came to an end following the elections. PH's leader, Mahathir Mohamad, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 a grand coalition government since November 2022, having previously led a single-coalition government from May 2018 to February 2020. It is currently the largest coalition in the Dewan Rakyat with 81 seats and is part of the state governments of seven of 13 states in the country, comprising Penang, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Pahang, Malacca and Sabah. It also provides confidence and supply in Johor for its state government led by Barisan Nasional (BN). The coalition consists of the Democratic Action Party (Malaysia), Democratic Action Party (DAP), People's Justice Party (Malaysia), People's Justice Party (PKR), National Trust Party (Malaysia), National Trust Party (AMANAH), and United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Adli
Adam Adli bin Abd Halim (; born 3 July 1989) is a Malaysian politician and student activist who has served as the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Minister Hannah Yeoh Tseow Suan since December 2022 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hang Tuah Jaya since November 2022. He is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. He has served as the Deputy Youth Chief of PH since July 2022. He also served as the 5th Youth Chief of PKR from July 2022 to May 2025. Early life and education Adli studied at the Sultan Idris Education University. On 9 January 2013, Adli was suspended for three semesters, which ended in September for allegedly tarnishing the university's name and disturbing public peace and safety. Political career On 16 September 2021, Adam Adli officially joined the People's Justice Party, along with 20 other young activists an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
Nik Nazmi bin Nik Ahmad ( Jawi: ; born 12 January 1982) is a Malaysian who has served as Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability in the administration of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since 2023. He has been member of parliament for Setiawangsa since 2018. He previously served as the Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Climate Change from 2022 to 2023 and chaired the Defence and Home Affairs Select Committee from 2019 to 2020. Prior to that, Nik served as Deputy Speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly from June 2013 to September 2014, of which he was also a member from 2008 to 2018 representing Seri Setia. From 2008 to 2010, he was also the Political Secretary to the Menteri Besar of Selangor Khalid Ibrahim. A member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, he served as one of its vice-presidents from 2022 to 2025. He has also served as the party's 3rd Youth Chief from 2014 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
