Mohammad Azmir Azizan (born 26 September 1980) is a

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politician and

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who has served as Member of the

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(EXCO) in the

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(PN) state administration under

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

as well as Member of the

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(MLA) for Santan since November 2022. He is a member of the

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(PAS), a component party of the PN coalition. He is also the State Information Chief of PAS of

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, State Youth Chief of PAS of Perlis, Division Deputy Chief of PAS of Padang Besar and Member of the Board of Administrators of school of PAS.

Personal life

Mohammad Azmir was born on 26 September 1980. He is also married and has three children with her wife.

Political career

Member of the Perlis State Executive Council (since 2022)

In the 2022 Perlis state election, the ruling

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(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

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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

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of the assembly. Therefore, State Chairman of PN of Perlis, State Commissioner of PAS of Perlis and

Sanglang Sanglang is a small town located in Perlis, Malaysia. Economy The majority of the people in Sanglang work as farmers or fishermen. There is also growing number of "birds nests farmers". Sanglang actually situated at the border between the states ...

MLA Mohd Shukri replaced

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as the new and 10th Menteri Besar of Perlis and formed a new PN state administration on 22 November 2022. On 25 November 2022, Mohammad Azmir was appointed as the Perlis State EXCO Member in charge of Islamic Religion, Education, Youth, Sports, Human Resource Development, Information and

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(NGOs) by Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri.

Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (since 2022)

2022 Perlis state election

In the 2022 state election, Mohammad Azmir made his electoral debut after being nominated by PN to contest for the Santan state seat. He won the seat and was elected into the Perlis State Legislative Assembly as the Santan MLA after defeating EXCO Member and defending MLA

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of BN and Che Mazlina Che Yob of

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(PH) by the majority of 2,108 votes.

Other careers

Mohammad Azmir is also the Deputy Head of ''Ma'had Tahfiz, Al-Quran Al-Imam An Nawawi'' (MATIN), Chief of the Perlis Student Families in

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and Chief Advisor to the Perlis Student Families.

Election results

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{{Authority control Living people 1980 births Malaysian people of Malay descent Malaysian Islamic Party politicians Members of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly 21st-century Malaysian politicians