Mohd Anuar bin Mohd Tahir ( Jawi: محمد انوار بن محمد طاهر) is a Malaysian

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who served as Deputy Minister of Works in the

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(PH) administration under former Prime Minister

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and former Minister

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from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from May 2018 to November 2022. He is a member of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of the PH coalition and was a member of the

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(PAS), then component party of the

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(PR) coalition, the People's Justice Party (PKR), then component party of the

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(BA) coalition as well as the

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(UMNO), a component party of the

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(BN) coalition. He also served as the 1st and founding Secretary-General of AMANAH from September 2015 to December 2019.

Educations

Mohd Anuar was born in 1952 at Beseri, Perlis, and received his early education at Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Beseri. He studied and graduated his bachelor's degree in Business Administration at MARA Institute of Technology (ITM). He later obtained his master's degree in Sociology at

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, United States (1985–1986). During his time as a student at ITM, Mohd Anuar started involving in youth Non-governmental organizations (NGO) like Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM) and others.

Politics

Mohd Anuar was a

(UMNO) before quits following dismissal of

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from the party in 1998. He was then appointed as the first secretary general of People's Justice Party (KeADILan) in 1999, but somehow he shifted by joining

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(PAS) in 2003 and was selected as a Central Working Committee member of PAS. However Mohd Anuar was one of the moderate and progressive PAS leaders referred to as G18 who were ousted at the 2015 PAS leadership election that led them to launch the new splinter party, AMANAH with Mohd Anuar as its first secretary general.

Elections

Mohd Anuar made his debut contesting in the 1999 general election as a KeADILan candidate the parliamentary seat of Padang Besar, Perlis. He also contested before the

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seats of Beseri in the 2004 general election,

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in the 2008 general election and Santan in the 2013 general election representing PAS. But he lost in all his attempts until he contested and won in the 2018 general election the parliamentary seat of

in Pahang as an AMANAH candidate.

Election results

Honours

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Knight Commander of the

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(DCSM) – Datuk Wira (2019)

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