The Parti Ikatan Bangsa Malaysia ( en, Malaysia National Alliance Party; often known by its acronym: IKATAN) is a political party in Malaysia formed on 7 June 2012 by the former United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) cabinet minister and veteran,

Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Abdul Kadir bin Sheikh Fadzir ( Jawi: عبدالقادر بن شيخ فاضل; born 4 June 1939) is a Malaysian politician and former seven-term Member of Parliament (MP) of Malaysia representing Kulim-Bandar Bahar ...

along with a few former UMNO members. The party was forced to wait for more than two years for approval from the

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(RoS). In February 2013, Abdul Kadir dragged the RoS to High Court for them to approve the party. The party was later approved on 15 May 2015. The party intends to bring the original ideas and politics principles of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Malaysian Prime Minister and Father of Independence. The party said that they are not pro-government nor pro-opposition. In 2016 IKATAN however together with opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) formed

Gagasan Sejahtera The Gagasan Sejahtera (English: ''Ideas of Prosperity'', abbrev: GS) was a coalition of opposition Islamist political parties which promote the "ideas of peace" in Malaysia. The informal electoral pact was formed initially on 16 March 2016 by ...

(GS), an informal political ''Third Force'' alliance. Joined later by Pan-Malaysian Islamic Front (BERJASA), the three opposition parties under GS alliance contested using PAS logo in the 2018 general elections (GE14), including IKATAN in some 'unwinnable' non-Muslim seats. IKATAN failed to win a single state or parliamentary seat in the seats it had contested with only PAS managed to win seats in the election, securing 18.. The party is currently unrepresented in the

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and in all of the state legislative assemblies. On 26 October 2022, IKATAN chose to support BN. IKATAN's Head of Information, Nik Marhalim Mohd Bakri, said in the spirit of ummah unification, then IKATAN chose to support BN in GE-15.

Structure and membership

Current office bearers

* President: **

* Deputy President: ** Abdul Aziz Sheikh Fadzir * Vice-President: ** Tunku Muinuddin Putra ** Mohamad Badri Abd Rahman * Secretary-General: ** Tengku Ahmad Mudzaffar Bin Tengku Zaid * Treasurer: ** David Sew Kah Heng * Information Chief: ** Nik Marhalim Dato' Mohd Bakri * Strategy Director: ** Azahari Ab Rahman * Youth Chief: ** Shahir Adnan * Central Working Committee: ** Kelly Lim ** Janice Lim ** Nik Marhalim * Founding member ** Dato Tony Looi

General election results

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