Datuk Seri
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Saifuddin Nasution bin Ismail (
Jawi: سيف الدين ناسوتيون بن اسماعيل; born 7 December 1963) is a
Malaysian
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politician
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who has served as the
Minister of Home Affairs
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in the
Pakatan Harapan
The Alliance of Hope ( ms, Pakatan Harapan; abbrev: PH; stylized as HARAPAN) is a Malaysian political coalition consisting of centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has been the r ...
(PH) administration under Prime Minister
Anwar Ibrahim
Anwar bin Ibrahim ( ms, انور بن ابراهيم, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, IPA: ; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia since November 2022. He served as the 12 ...
as well as
Senator
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since December 2022. He also served as the
Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs in the PH administration under former Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad
Mahathir bin Mohamad ( ms, محاضير بن محمد, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; ; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author, and physician who served as the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the office ...
from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. He served as the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Kulim-Bandar Baharu from May 2018 to November 2022 and for
Machang from March 2008 to May 2013 as well as Member of the
Penang State Legislative Assembly
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(MLA) for
Pantai Jerejak since May 2018 and MLA of
Kedah
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for
Lunas from November 2000 to March 2004. He is a member of the
People's Justice Party
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(PKR), a component party of the PH opposition coalition. He has also served as the Secretary-General of PKR from January 2010 to his resignation in October 2014 and again since November 2016 as well as Secretary-General of PH since March 2020.
Political career
Saifuddin was initially a member of the youth wing of the ruling
UMNO
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party but was expelled in 1999 as its assistant secretary. An ally of
Anwar Ibrahim
Anwar bin Ibrahim ( ms, انور بن ابراهيم, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, IPA: ; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia since November 2022. He served as the 12 ...
, Saifuddin then defected to the opposition KeADILan party, which later became PKR.
Saifuddin election debut was in the
1999 general election contesting the seat of
Padang Serai
Padang Serai or lemongrass field, a little town in Kulim District, Kedah, Malaysia.
The sleepy hollow, surrounded by oil palm plantations and the nearby Kulim High-tech Industrial Zone has 56 percent Malay, 23 percent Indians and 12 percent C ...
, Kedah for PKR but lost. A year later, he won the
Kedah State Assembly seat of
Lunas in a
2000 by-election.
However, he failed in his bid to be elevated to the
federal Parliament
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in the
2004 election, losing to Lim Bee Kau of the
Barisan Nasional
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in the seat of Padang Serai again. In the
2008 election, Saifuddin contested and won the federal seat of Machang in Kelantan. For the
2013 election, he returned to Kedah to contest the seat of
Kulim-Bandar Baharu, but was defeated by UMNO's
Abd. Aziz Sheikh Fadzir
Dato' Abd. Aziz bin Sheikh Fadzir (born 28 April 1963) is a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the seat of Kulim–Bandar Baharu in the state of Kedah for one term from 2013 to 2018, representing the Uni ...
. Somehow in
2018 election, Saifuddin made a comeback to win both the Kulim-Bandar Baharu parliamentary seat and Pantai Jerejak, Penang state seat but lost his parlimentary seat in
2022
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. He later was appointed as senator to served as minister in
Anwar Ibrahim cabinet
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.
In January 2010, Saifuddin was appointed the Secretary-General of PKR, replacing Salehuddin Hashim. In 2014, he vacated the post to run for the party's deputy presidency, but was defeated by
Azmin Ali
Mohamed Azmin bin Ali ( Jawi: محمد عزمين بن علي; born 25 August 1964) is a Malaysian politician who served as Senior Minister of the Economic Cluster and as Minister of International Trade and Industry from 2020 to 2022. A memb ...
. He was once again appointed to the post of PKR Secretary-General in November 2016, this time to replace
Rafizi Ramli
Mohd Rafizi bin Ramli ( Jawi: ; born 14 September 1977) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Economy in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the Member of Pa ...
.
Election results
Honours
Honours of Malaysia
* :
** Knight Companion of the
Order of Loyalty to the Royal House of Kedah
The Illustrious Order of Loyalty to the Royal House of Kedah (Bahasa Melayu: ''Darjah Yang Mulia Setia di-Raja'') is an honorific order of the Sultanate of Kedah
History
It was founded by Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah on 21 September 1973.
Cl ...
(DSDK) - Dato' (2012)
* :
**
![MY-MAL Exalted Order of Malacca](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/MY-MAL_Exalted_Order_of_Malacca.svg)
Grand Commander of the
Order of Malacca (DGSM) - Datuk Seri (2018)
References
External links
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Living people
1963 births
Government ministers of Malaysia
Members of the Dewan Rakyat
Members of the Penang State Legislative Assembly
Members of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly
People's Justice Party (Malaysia) politicians
Former United Malays National Organisation politicians
University of Putra Malaysia alumni
People from Singapore
Malaysian people of Singaporean descent
Malaysian people of Malay descent
People of Batak descent
Mandailing people
Malaysian Muslims
Singaporean emigrants to Malaysia
People who lost Singaporean citizenship
Citizens of Malaysia through descent
21st-century Malaysian politicians