Mohd Anuar Mohd Tahir

Mohd Anuar bin Mohd Tahir (Jawi: محمد انوار بن محمد طاهر) is a Malaysian politician who served as Deputy Minister of Works in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Baru Bian from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Temerloh from May 2018 to November 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), then component party of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition, the People's Justice Party (PKR), then component party of the Barisan Alternatif (BA) coalition as well as the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He also served as the 1st and founding Secretary-General of AMANAH from September 2015 to December 2019.

Educations Mohd Anuar was born in 1952 at Beseri, Perlis, and received his early education at Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Beseri. He studied and graduated his bachelor's degree in Business Administration at MARA Institute of Technology (ITM). He later obtained his master's degree in Sociology at Morehead State University, United States (1985–1986).

During his time as a student at ITM, Mohd Anuar started involving in youth Non-governmental organizations (NGO) like Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia (ABIM) and others. that led them to launch the new splinter party, AMANAH with Mohd Anuar as its first secretary general.

Elections Mohd Anuar made his debut contesting in the 1999 general election as a KeADILan candidate the parliamentary seat of Padang Besar, Perlis. He also contested before the Perlis State Legislative Assembly seats of Beseri in the 2004 general election, Bintong in the 2008 general election and Santan in the 2013 general election representing PAS. But he lost in all his attempts until he contested and won in the 2018 general election the parliamentary seat of Temerloh in Pahang as an AMANAH candidate. Year |Constituency

Votes Pct

Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout 2004 N02 Beseri | (PAS)

31.04% | (UMNO)

66.87% 5,222 1,871 78.59% 2008 N06 Bintong | Mohd Anuar Mohd Tahir (PAS)

36.22% | Md Isa Sabu (UMNO)

63.78% 7,864 2,110 83.78% 2013 N05 Santan | Mohd Anuar Mohd Tahir (PAS)

42.61% | Sabry Ahmad (UMNO)

57.39% 7,449 1,084 88.63%

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