Datuk Seri The Malay language has a complex system of styles, titles and honorifics which are used extensively in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the southern Philippines. Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and several provinces in Indonesia regu ...

Saifuddin Nasution bin Ismail ( Jawi: سيف الدين ناسوتيون بن اسماعيل; born 7 December 1963) is a Malaysian

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, ...

who has served as the

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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 ...

(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 1 ...

as well as

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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

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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

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(MLA) for Pantai Jerejak since May 2018 and MLA of

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for Lunas from November 2000 to March 2004. He is a member of the

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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

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party but was expelled in 1999 as its assistant secretary. An ally of

, 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

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, 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

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in the 2004 election, losing to Lim Bee Kau of the

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in the seat of Padang Serai again. In the

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, 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

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. He later was appointed as senator to served as minister in

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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. 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

Grand Commander of the Order of Malacca (DGSM) - Datuk Seri (2018)

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* {{Authority control 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