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Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz

Yang Berhormat Dato' Seri
Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz
MP
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Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz interviewed during a press conference.
Minister of Tourism and Culture
Assumed office
16 May 2013
Preceded by Ng Yen Yen (Tourism portfolio)
Rais Yatim (Culture portfolio)
Member of Parliament for Padang Rengas, Perak
Assumed office
2004
Preceded by New constituency
Minister in the Prime Minister Department
Law & Parliamentary Affairs
In office
27 March 2004 – 15 May 2013
Succeeded by Nancy Shukri
Malaysian Minister of Entrepreneur Development
In office
15 December 1999 – 26 March 2004
Preceded by Mustapa Mohamed
Succeeded by Mohamed Khaled Nordin (as Minister of Entrepreneur and Co-operative Development)
Personal details
Born Mohamed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz
(1954-05-15) 15 May 1954 (age 62)
Perak, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia)
Citizenship Malaysian
Political party United Malays National Organisation
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional
Occupation Politician
Religion Sunni Islam

Dato' Seri Mohamed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz (born 15 May 1954) is a Malaysian politician from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), and is as of 2008 a Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of affairs. In June 2005 Nazri caused controversy when he shouted the phrase "racist" (or variants of it) 28 times in Parliament. A request by opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) lawmaker Fong Po Kuan for Nazri to take back his comments went unheeded. The incident occurred during a debate on the Malaysian Medical Council's derecognition of Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) medical degrees; most Malaysian students sent to study there were of Indian extraction. Nazri has since used the phrase "bloody racist" on Tun Dr. Mahathir because the latter supports a controversial government programme that allegedly indoctrinates racist sentiments in civil servants and public university students.

Nazri was originally also the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of legal affairs and judicial reform. After the 2008 general election, which saw the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition's majority in Parliament significantly reduced, the then Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi reshuffled his Cabinet and gave Nazri's legal affairs portfolio to Zaid Ibrahim.

He has also recently (2006) been called the hatchetman of Abdullah, then Prime Minister of Malaysia, by Former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, for defending Abdullah in Mahathir's ongoing criticisms against the government.


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