Adly Zahari

Adly bin Zahari (Jawi: عدلي بن ظهري; born 15 February 1971) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Defence in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Minister Mohamad Hasan since December 2022, Member of Parliament (MP) for Alor Gajah since November 2022 and Member of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bukit Katil since May 2018. He served as the 11th Chief Minister of Malacca from May 2018 to March 2020 and State Leader of the Opposition of Malacca from April 2020 to December 2022. He is a member of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of the PH coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of formerly the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition. In AMANAH, he has served as a Vice-President since September 2021 and State Chairman of Malacca since August 2017. He was also the Treasurer-General of AMANAH prior to his promotion to the party vice presidency. He is also the sole Malacca AMANAH MLA.

Education & Early Career Adly attended Sekolah Menengah Teknik Melaka, Bukit Piatu and obtained his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEng) with honours from University of Technology Malaysia (UTM). During his schooling days, he was an orator and represented his school in several public speaking competitions at both state & national level. He became an engineer, served in the corporate sectors and started his own business before joining the politics.

Political career He was a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) prior to joining its new splinter party AMANAH in 2015.

Member of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly (since 2018) In the 2018 Malacca state election, Adly made his electoral debut after being nominated by PH to contest for the Bukit Katil state seat. He won the seat and was elected to the Malacca State Legislative Assembly as the Bukit Katil MLA for the first term. In the snap 2021 Malacca state election, Adly was renominated by PH to defend the Bukit Katil seat. He defended the seat and was reelected to the assembly for the second term. However, he was the only winner of his party and he was left as the only Malacca MLA of AMANAH after the snap election.

Chief Minister of Malacca (2018–2020) On 11 May 2018, a historic and first ever transition of power took place in Malacca as the State Chairman of PH of Malacca Adly being sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Malacca after BN lost to PH in 2018 state election where PH won a simple majority in the assembly by taking 15 of the 28 state seats to form the new state government. |Year |Constituency

|Votes |Pct

|Votes |Pct |Ballots cast |Majority |Turnout 2013 N09 Durian Tunggal | Adly Zahari (PAS)

43.40% | Ab Wahab Ab Latip (UMNO)

56.60% 10,133 1,316 89.62%

| Yunus Hitam (UMNO)

32.20%

| Muhamat Puhat Bedol (PAS) 2,237 8.90%

| Hasnoor Sidang Husin (UMNO)

35.10%

Muhammad Al Afiz Yahya (PAS)

22.68% | Abdul Hamid Mustapah (IND)

Honours Honours of Malaysia