Hasan Malek

Hasan Malek
حسن مالك
Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism
In office
16 May 2013 – 29 July 2015
MonarchAbdul Halim
Prime MinisterNajib Razak
DeputyAhmad Bashah Md Hanipah
Preceded byIsmail Sabri Yaakob
Succeeded byHamzah Zainudin
ConstituencyKuala Pilah
Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development I
In office
10 April 2009 – 15 May 2013
MonarchsMizan Zainal Abidin
Abdul Halim
Prime MinisterNajib Razak
MinisterShafie Apdal
Preceded byJoseph Kurup
Succeeded byAlexander Nanta Linggi
ConstituencyKuala Pilah
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department
In office
19 March 2008 – 9 April 2009
MonarchMizan Zainal Abidin
Prime MinisterAbdullah Ahmad Badawi
MinisterMohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz
Zaid Ibrahim (2008)
Preceded byM. Kayveas
Succeeded byLiew Vui Keong
Murugiah Thopasamy
ConstituencyKuala Pilah
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Kuala Pilah
In office
21 March 2004 – 9 May 2018
Preceded byNapsiah Omar (BNUMNO)
Succeeded byEddin Syazlee Shith (PHBERSATU)
Majority13,342 (2004)
10,008 (2008)
9,661 (2013)
Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly
for Juasseh
In office
25 April 1995 – 21 March 2004
Preceded byMohamad Ahmad (BNUMNO)
Succeeded byMohammad Razi Kail (BNUMNO)
Majority4,291 (1995)
985 (1999)
Personal details
Born
Hasan bin Malek

(1946-04-24) 24 April 1946 (age 78)
Negeri Sembilan, Malayan Union (now Malaysia)
Political partyUnited Malays National Organisation (UMNO)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
SpouseNorainee binti Mohd Yatib
Alma materUniversity of Malaya University of Manchester
OccupationPolitician

Hasan bin Malek (Jawi: حسن بن مالك; born 24 April 1946) is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuala Pilah from March 2004 to May 2018. and formerly the Ambassador of Malaysia to Cambodia. He was the federal Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

In the 1995 general election and 1999 general election, Hasan won the state seat of Juasseh in the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly.[1][2] He remained in the State Assembly until the 2004 election, in which he was elected to the federal Parliament for the seat of Kuala Pilah.[3] He was re-elected in 2008 and 2013. After the 2008 election he became a deputy minister, and after the 2013 election, he was appointed as the Minister of Domestic Trade Cooperative and Consumerism in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Razak.[4]

In the 2018 general election, Hasan lost to Eddin Syazlee Shith of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (BERSATU), in a three-corner fight with Rafiei Mustapha of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) for the Kuala Pilah parliamentary seat.

  1. ^ "YB Dato' Sri Hasan bin Malek". Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism (Malaysia). Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Negri urged to organise 'Week of Hard Life'". New Straits Times. 22 October 2002. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  3. ^ "Malaysia Decides 2008". The Star (Malaysia). Retrieved 23 January 2010. Includes results from the 2004 election. Results from earlier elections are not available.
  4. ^ "Cabinet ministers take oath of office". Sin Chew Jit Poh. 16 May 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2014.