William Leong Jee Keen (; born 27 January 1957) is a

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politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

who has served as the

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(MP) for

Selayang Selayang is a town in Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia. Location Selayang is located on the main route to Rawang through Jalan Ipoh, and this route is connected to Jalan Kuching as main Rawang-Kuala Lumpur route. It is also an optional ...

since March 2008 and Chair of the Major Public Appointments Select Committee since December 2018. He is a member of the

People's Justice Party The People's Justice Party ( ms, Parti Keadilan Rakyat , often known simply as KEADILAN or PKR) is a reformist political party in Malaysia, formed in 2003 by a merger of the National Justice Party and the older Malaysian People's Party. The ...

(PKR), a component party of 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) opposition coalition. He has also served as the Treasurer-General of PKR since July 2022.

Personal life

Leong is also a lawyer, and has three children.

Political career

Leong was elected to Parliament in the

2008 Malaysian general election A general election was held on Saturday, 8 March 2008 for members of the 12th Parliament of Malaysia. Voting took place in all 222 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant ...

, winning the seat of Selayang from the ruling

Barisan Nasional The National Front ( ms, Barisan Nasional; abbrev: BN) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties. It is also the third largest political coalition with 30 se ...

(BN) coalition.

Election results

References

20th-century Malaysian lawyers Living people Members of the Dewan Rakyat People's Justice Party (Malaysia) politicians 1957 births Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent People from Perak 21st-century Malaysian lawyers {{Malaysia-politician-stub

Personal life

Political career

Election results

See also

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