Succeeded by Khairuddin Mahmud Religion Islam | Majority 2,814 Occupation Politician Party Democratic Action Party | |
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Political party Democratic Action Party (2012–)UMNO (until 2012) | ||
Dato' Mohamad Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz, commonly known by his blogger name of Sakmongkol AK47, is a Malaysian politician and prominent blogger. He is the former Pahang assemblyman for Pulau Manis from 2004 to 2008. He is a member of UMNO until 2012 and served as the Pekan UMNO chief of information under Najib Razak from 2000 to 2004.
In early 2012, he and another prominent blogger, Aspan Alias left UMNO and joined the Democratic Action Party, citing UMNO's failure to eradicate corruption and increase the livelihood of Malays in general. He won the Pahang parliamentary seat of Raub in the 2013 general election.
Personal life
Ariff Sabri graduated with a degree on economics from the University of Malaya and University of Manchester (Owens).
References
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