Zuraida Kamaruddin

Zuraida Kamaruddin
زريدة قمرالدين
Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities
In office
30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterIsmail Sabri Yaakob
DeputyWee Jeck Seng
(Deputy Minister I)
Willie Mongin
(Deputy Minister II)
Preceded byKhairuddin Razali
Succeeded byFadillah Yusof
(Minister of Plantation and Commodities)
ConstituencyAmpang
Minister of Housing and Local Government
In office
10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterMuhyiddin Yassin
DeputyIsmail Abdul Muttalib
Preceded byHerself
Succeeded byReezal Merican Naina Merican
ConstituencyAmpang
In office
21 May 2018 – 24 February 2020
MonarchsMuhammad V
(2018–2019)
Abdullah
(2019–2020)
Prime MinisterMahathir Mohamad
DeputyRaja Kamarul Bahrin
Preceded byNoh Omar
(Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government)
Succeeded byHerself
ConstituencyAmpang
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Ampang
In office
8 March 2008 – 19 November 2022
Preceded byRozaidah Talib
(BNUMNO)
Succeeded byRodziah Ismail
(PHPKR)
Majority3,676 (2008)
13,278 (2013)
41,956 (2018)
President-designate of the
Parti Bangsa Malaysia
In office
9 June 2022 – 27 December 2022
PresidentLarry Sng Wei Shien
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of the Supreme Council
of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party
In office
8 September 2020 – 12 May 2022[note 1]
PresidentMuhyiddin Yassin
Vice President of the People's Justice Party
In office
18 November 2018 – 24 February 2020
Serving with Rafizi Ramli (2018–2020) &
Chua Tian Chang (2018–2020) &
Chang Lih Kang (2018–2020) &
Xavier Jayakumar Arulanandam (2018–2020) &
Ali Biju (2018–2020) &
Nurul Izzah Anwar (2018)
PresidentAnwar Ibrahim
Women Chief of the People's Justice Party
In office
27 May 2007 – 18 November 2018
PresidentWan Azizah Wan Ismail
DeputyHaniza Mohamed Talha
(2007–2010 & 2014–2018)
Daroyah Alwi
(2010–2014)
Preceded byFuziah Salleh
Succeeded byHaniza Mohamed Talha
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat
2008–2018People's Justice Party
2018–2020Pakatan Harapan
2020Malaysian United Indigenous Party
2020–2022Perikatan Nasional
2022Parti Bangsa Malaysia
Personal details
Born
Zuraida binti Kamaruddin

(1958-03-14) 14 March 1958 (age 66)
Colony of Singapore
NationalityMalaysian
Political partyPeople's Justice Party (PKR)
(until 2020)
Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU)
(2020–2022)
Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM)
(June–Dec 2022)
Other political
affiliations
Pakatan Rakyat (PR)
(2008–2015)
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
(2015–2020)
Perikatan Nasional (PN)
(2020–2022) (aligned since 2023)
SpouseFaridi Yaakob
OccupationPolitician

Datuk Zuraida binti Kamaruddin (Jawi: زريدة بنت قمرالدين; born 14 March 1958) is a Singaporean-born Malaysian politician who formerly served as Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, Minister of Housing and Local Government twice in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ampang from March 2008 to November 2022.

Zuraida was formerly a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR) from May 2007 to February 2020. She was the Women Chief of PKR from May 2007 to November 2018 and then the vice-president from November 2018 till February 2020 when she resigned from the party in February 2020 to join Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) with her key political ally, Deputy President of PKR and Minister of Economic Affairs Azmin Ali and several MPs aligned with Azmin. Zuraida was with BERSATU and was a member of the Supreme Council of BERSATU from February 2020 to May 2022 before her resignation to join Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM). She was a member of PBM from June to December 2022 where she failed to get re-elected under their banner in the November 2022 Malaysian general elections, polling only 4.4 percent of the electorate in the Ampang parliamentary seat which she had held since 2008 as a PKR candidate.
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