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Tan Yee Kew () (born 1953) is a

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who served as the

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(MP) for

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from May 2018 to November 2022, for Klang from April 1995 to March 2008 and Parliamentary Secretary of International Trade and Industry from March 2004 to March 2008. She is a member of the

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(PKR), a component party of the

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(PH) opposition coalition and was a member of the

Malaysian Chinese Association The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA; zh, 马来西亚华人公会; ; ta, மலேசிய சீனர் சங்கம், initially known as the Malayan Chinese Association) is a uni-racial political party in Malaysia that seeks to ...

(MCA), a component party of the ruling

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(BN) coalition. She was also the Treasurer of PKR before 2018, Deputy Women Chief of MCA from 1996 to 2005, State Women Chief of MCA of

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and Member of the Central Committee of MCA.

Political career

Tan joined MCA in 1986. Tan was also the Director of the

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from 1998 to 2001, before she was appointed as the Parliamentary secretary of

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in 2004. Anyhow, Tan was censured on violating the party disciplines, and her party membership had been suspended for 6 months in 2005. Furthermore, she was dropped as the candidate of 2008 general election, where MCA and BN suffered a great loss in Selangor later. Tan quit herself from MCA on 17 July 2008 and joined PKR with more than thousand of followers. During the 2013 general election, Tan contested as PKR candidate for the parliamentary seat of in

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, against MCA's

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, the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, but she lost by 4,328 votes. In 2018 general election, Tan moved to in

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, and defeated Yew Teong Look, the candidate of MCA, with 24,238 votes majority.

Election results

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

* : **

MY-SEL Order of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah - Knight Companion - DSSA

Knight Companion of the

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(DSSA) – Datin Paduka (2000)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tan, Yee Kew 1953 births Living people People from Selangor People's Justice Party (Malaysia) politicians Malaysian Chinese Association politicians Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent Members of the Dewan Rakyat Women members of the Dewan Rakyat University of Malaya alumni University of the Punjab alumni Alumni of the University of Reading Alumni of the University of Wales