Occupation Politician Role Politician | Name Saifuddin Abdullah Religion Sunni Islam Education University of Malaya | |
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Preceded by Mohd Sarit Yusoh (UMNO–BN) Succeeded by Nasrudin Hassan (PAS–PR) Born 27 January 1961 (age 63)
Pahang, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) ( 1961-01-27 ) Political party UMNO–Barisan Nasional
PKR–Pakatan Harapan Website www.saifuddinabdullah.com.my Similar People Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Zaid Ibrahim, Khairy Jamaluddin, Najib Razak, Mahathir Mohamad | ||
Date of birth January 27, 1961 (age 54) | ||
Saifuddin abdullah don t let anyone hijack the malaysian narratives
Dato' Saifuddin Abdullah (born 27 January 1961) is a Malaysian politician and was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Temerloh constituency in Pahang from 2008 to 2013.
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Saifuddin was elected to Parliament in the 2008 election, and was immediately appointed as a deputy minister, being cited as a future ministerial prospect. He had previously been the Secretary-General of the Malaysian Youth Council. After the election he was appointed as a deputy minister, and was the Deputy Minister for Higher Education in Najib Razak's first term as Prime Minister. During his ministerial tenure, Saifuddin was one of the more moderate and liberal-progressive politicians in Najib's administration. He criticised his own government's handling of the Bersih 2.0 rally in 2011, in which over 1,600 protestors were arrested on the streets of Kuala Lumpur. In early 2013, he also stood up for a student who was humiliated by a government-linked panellist at a student forum at the Universiti Utara Malaysia.
Saifuddin's ministerial career was cut short by the 2013 election, when he lost his parliamentary seat to a Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) candidate by 1,070 votes.
Saifuddin has written four books on Malaysian politics. After leaving Parliament he joined the University of Malaya as a research fellow, but in 2014, he resigned his position in protest when Malaysia's Education Ministry forced a well-respected professor at the university to resign, reportedly due to research findings critical of the government.
In 2015, Saifuddin quit UMNO and joined the People's Justice Party (PKR) over disagreements with the government's handling of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.
