Hasan Malek

حسن مالك‎Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and ConsumerismIn office
16 May 2013 – 29 July 2015MonarchAbdul HalimPrime MinisterNajib RazakDeputyAhmad Bashah Md HanipahPreceded byIsmail Sabri YaakobSucceeded byHamzah ZainudinConstituencyKuala PilahDeputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development IIn office
10 April 2009 – 15 May 2013MonarchsMizan Zainal Abidin
Abdul HalimPrime MinisterNajib RazakMinisterShafie ApdalPreceded byJoseph KurupSucceeded byAlexander Nanta LinggiConstituencyKuala PilahDeputy Minister in the Prime Minister's DepartmentIn office
19 March 2008 – 9 April 2009MonarchMizan Zainal AbidinPrime MinisterAbdullah Ahmad BadawiMinisterMohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz
Zaid Ibrahim (2008)Preceded byM. KayveasSucceeded byLiew Vui Keong
Murugiah ThopasamyConstituencyKuala PilahMember of the Malaysian Parliament
for Kuala PilahIn office
21 March 2004 – 9 May 2018Preceded byNapsiah Omar (UMNO–BN)Succeeded byEddin Syazlee Shith (PPBM–PH)Majority13,342 (2004)
10,008 (2008)
9,661 (2013)
Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly
for JuassehIn office
25 April 1995 – 21 March 2004Preceded byMohamad Ahmad (UMNO–BN)Succeeded byMohammad Razi Kail (UMNO–BN)Majority4,291 (1995)
985 (1999) Personal detailsBorn
(1946-04-24) 24 April 1946 (age 78)
Negeri Sembilan, Malayan Union (now Malaysia)Political partyUnited Malays National Organisation (UMNO)Other political
affiliationsBarisan Nasional (BN)SpouseNorainee binti Mohd YatibAlma materUniversity of Malaya University of ManchesterOccupationPolitician

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 (PPBM), in a three-corner fight with Rafiei Mustapha of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) for the Kuala Pilah parliamentary seat.

Controversy

On 29 August 2019, the High Court had allowed the government's forfeiture of RM100,000 frozen from Hasan's bank account earlier in July in connection with the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal investigation.^[5][6]

Election results

Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly^[7]

Year	Constituency	Candidate		Votes	Pct	Opponent(s)		Votes	Pct	Ballots cast	Majority	Turnout
1995	N13 Juasseh		Hasan Malek (UMNO)	4,979	85%		Mat Rais Paris (S46)	688	12%
1999			Hasan Malek (UMNO)	3,495	56%		Shamsul Bahri Shamsudin (keADILan)	2,510	40%

Parliament of Malaysia^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Year	Constituency	Candidate		Votes	Pct	Opponent(s)		Votes	Pct	Ballots cast	Majority	Turnout
2004	P129 Kuala Pilah		Hasan Malek (UMNO)	22,105	71.61%		Annuar Mohd Salleh (PKR)	8,763	28.39%	31,778	13,342	73.74%
2008			Hasan Malek (UMNO)	20,417	66.23%		Annuar Mohd Salleh (PKR)	10,409	33.77%	31,734	10,008	74.97%
2013			Hasan Malek (UMNO)	24,507	62.27%		Mohd Nazree Mohd Yunus (PKR)	14,846	37.73%	40,291	9,661	84.52%
2018			Hasan Malek (UMNO)	17,845	44.35%		Eddin Syazlee Shith (PPBM)	18,045	44.85%	41,156	200	82.64%
							Rafiei Mustapha (PAS)	4,347	10.80%

Honours

•  Malaysia :
  • Member of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (AMN) (1981)^[14]
•  Malacca :
  • Companion Class I of the Exalted Order of Malacca (DMSM) – Datuk (2000)^[14]
•  Negeri Sembilan :
  • Justice of the Peace of Negeri Sembilan (JP) (1998)^[15]
  • Knight Commander of the Order of Loyalty to Negeri Sembilan (DSNS) – Dato' (2005)^[14][16]
  • Knight Grand Companion of the Order of Loyalty to Negeri Sembilan (SSNS) – Dato' Seri (2015)^[14][17]
•  Pahang :
  • Knight Companion of the Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (DSAP) – Dato' (2011)^[14][18]
  • Grand Knight of the Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (SSAP) – Dato' Sri (2013)^[14][19]

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