Wan Zikri Afthar Ishak is a Malaysian

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 Member of the Perlis State Executive Council (EXCO) in 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) state administration under

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Mohd Shukri Ramli Mohd Shukri bin Ramli (born 6 February 1961) is a Malaysian politician and teacher who has served as the 10th Menteri Besar of Perlis since November 2022 and Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly for Sanglang since May 2013. He serv ...

from November 2023 to November 2024 and Member of the

Perlis State Legislative Assembly The Perlis State Legislative Assembly () is the Dewan Undangan Negeri, state legislature of the States and federal territories of Malaysia, Malaysian state of Perlis. It is a unicameral institution, consisting of a total of 15 lawmakers repre ...

(MLA) for Tambun Tulang since November 2022. He is a member and Youth Information Chief of

Perlis Perlis (Kedah Malay language, Kedah Malay (Perlis dialect): ''Peghelih'') is a Negeri, state of Malaysia in the northwestern coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It is the smallest state in Malaysia by area and population. The state borders the Thai ...

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 PN coalition.

Political career

Member of the Perlis State Executive Council (since 2023)

In the

2022 Perlis state election The 2022 Perlis state election, formally the 15th Perlis state election, took place on 19 November 2022. This election was to elect 15 members of the 15th Perlis State Legislative Assembly. The previous assembly was dissolved on 14 October 2022. ...

, the ruling

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) suffered from huge defeat and wipeout in the assembly as none of its candidates won a state seat in the elections after losing all the 10 seats it previously held to PN. The elections ended 63-year rule of BN in the state, saw the first ever

transition of power A peaceful transition or transfer of power is a concept important to democratic governments in which the leadership of a government peacefully hands over control of government to a newly elected leadership. This may be after elections or during t ...

in the history of the state and replaced BN with PN as the ruling coalition and dominant political force in the state as PN won 14 out of 15 state seats and therefore two-thirds

supermajority A supermajority is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of one-half used for a simple majority. Supermajority rules in a democracy can help to prevent a majority from eroding fun ...

of the assembly. Therefore, State Chairman of PN of Perlis, State Commissioner of PAS of Perlis and Sanglang MLA Mohd Shukri replaced

Azlan Man Dato' Seri Azlan bin Man (born 2 September 1958) is a Malaysian politician and diplomat who served as the 9th Menteri Besar of Perlis from May 2013 and Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bintong from May 2018 to Novem ...

as the new and 10th

Menteri Besar of Perlis The Menteri Besar of Perlis or First Minister of Perlis is the head of government in the Malaysian state of Perlis. According to convention, the Menteri Besar is the leader of the majority party or largest coalition party of the Perlis State Legis ...

and formed a new PN state administration on 22 November 2022. On 16 November 2023, the Perlis EXCO was reshuffled, Wan Zikri Afthar was appointed as the Perlis State EXCO Member in charge of Youth and Sports, Hawker and Small Traders, Entrepreneur Development, Small and Medium Industries, Development of New Growth Centre and Creative Economy to replace

Fakhrul Anwar Ismail Fakhrul Anwar Ismail (born 10 November 1971) is a Malaysian politician, businessman, school administrator, computer programmer, data analyst, data and information systems manager who has served as Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assem ...

who was removed from office during the reshuffle by Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri.

Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (since 2022)

2022 Perlis state election

In the 2022 state election, Wan Zikri Afthar was nominated by PN to contest for the Tambun Tulang seat. He won the seat and was elected into the Perlis State Legislative Assembly as the Tambun Tulang MLA after defeating defending MLA

Ismail Kassim Ismail bin Kassim (2 October 1959 – 22 May 2023) was a Malaysian politician who had served as the Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tambun Tulang from May 2013 to November 2022, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ar ...

of BN, Muhammad Syahmi Suhaimi of

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) and Maton Din 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) by the majority of 2,485 votes.

Election results

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wan Zikri Afthar Ishak Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Malaysian politicians of Malay descent Malaysian United Indigenous Party politicians Members of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly