Zaidi Attan

Zaidi bin Attan (born 4 October 1969) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Deputy Member of the Malacca State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration under Chief Minister Ab Rauf Yusoh and Member Abdul Razak Abdul Rahman since April 2023 for the second term and under former Chief Minister Idris Haron and former Members Abdul Ghafar Atan and Lim Ban Hong from May 2013 to the collapse of the BN administration in May 2018 for the first term. He also served as Member of the Malacca EXCO in the BN state administration under former Chief Minister Sulaiman Md Ali from November 2021 to March 2023. He has also served as Member of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Serkam since May 2013. He is also the Deputy Chairman of Syarikat Air Melaka Berhad (SAMB). He is a member and Vice Division Chief of Jasin of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition. His appointment as a Deputy EXCO Member in April 2023 is a demotion as he was previously appointed an EXCO Member in November 2021. This has rarely happened in the Malaysian politics.

Personal life and education Zaidi had his primary education at a Chinese national type primary school (SJKC), a type of vernacular school in Malaysia. As a result, Zaidi is able to communicate in basic Chinese and sign his name in Chinese. Zaidi revealed that he was given a Chinese name '再利' (pinyin : zài lì), although the literal translation of his name to Chinese is '再迪' (pinyin : zài dí).

He continued his secondary education at Sekolah Menengah Teknik Melaka, Bukit Piatu and graduated in Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEng.) with honours from the University of Technology Malaysia.

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