Awang Husaini Sahari

Awang Husaini bin Sahari (born 2 March 1967) is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putatan from May 2018 to November 2022. He is a member and the Division Chief of Putatan of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. He served as an appointed Vice President of PKR (Borneo Quota) from July 2022 to May 2025.

Political career Member of Parliament for Putatan (2018–2022) In the 2018 general election, PKR fielded him to contest the Putatan federal seat, facing Marcus Mojigoh from the United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Organisation (UPKO), a component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. Awang won the seat. In the 2022 general election, he was renominated to contest for the Putatan seat. Unfortunately, he was narrowly defeated by Shahelmey Yahya from BN and United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO) by only 124 votes.

Vice President of the People's Justice Party (2022–2025) On 20 July 2022, 3 days after the 2022 PKR party elections officially ended, he was appointed as Vice President of PKR alongside Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar who was in the position for 8 years from 2010 to 2018 and new officeholder Saraswathy Kandasami by PKR President Anwar Ibrahim after the decision was made in the PKR Central Leadership Council (MPP) meeting that night.

Election results

Honours

Justice of the Peace (JP) (2019)