Phahrolrazi Zawawi, Date of Birth

    

Phahrolrazi Zawawi

Malaysian politician

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1953

Profession: politician

Nationality: Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Phahrolrazi Zawawi

  • Datuk Haji Phahrolrazi bin Haji Zawawi (born 8 September 1953) is a Malaysian politician.
  • He holds the State Assembly seat of Pengkalan Kundor for the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).
  • After the 2008 election he was appointed as a member of the Executive Council of the Malaysian state of Kedah, chairing the Committee for Rural Development, Entrepreneur and Public Works.
  • In 2012 he was moved to the Housing and Local Government, Water Supply and Energy Resources portfolio.
  • His term in the Executive Council ended when PAS lost power in the 2013 election, although he held on to his seat in the State Assembly.
  • After the election he resigned as the deputy commissioner of PAS in Kedah.Pharolrazi is a leading figure in the moderate 'Erdogan' faction of PAS, named after the Turkish Prime Minister and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
  • During PAS's term in state government from 2008 to 2013, he emerged as a leadership rival to the Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) Azizan Abdul Razak, of the party's conservative ulama faction.
  • The breakdown in the relationship between Pharolrazi and Azizan led to Pharolrazi to refuse reappointment as a member of the Executive Council in 2012, before rejoining the council after a brief period.
  • In 2014 he formed PasMa, a splinter movement of the national party formed by members of the Erdogan faction concerned that the party's conservative leadership might cause a breakdown in the Pakatan Rakyat coalition between PAS, Anwar Ibrahim's People's Justice Party and the Democratic Action Party.

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