Mohammad Azmir Azizan

Mohammad Azmir Azizan (born 26 September 1980) is a Malaysian politician and school administrator who has served as Member of the Perlis State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri Ramli as well as Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Santan since November 2022. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the PN coalition. He is also the State Information Chief of PAS of Perlis, State Youth Chief of PAS of Perlis, Division Deputy Chief of PAS of Padang Besar and Member of the Board of Administrators of school of PAS.^[1]

Mohammad Azmir was born on 26 September 1980. He is also married and has three children with her wife.

In the 2022 Perlis state election, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) suffered from huge defeat and wipeout in the assembly as none of its candidates won a state seat in the elections after losing all the 10 seats it previously held to PN. The elections ended 63-year rule of BN in the state, saw the first ever transition of power in the history of the state and replaced BN with PN as the ruling coalition and dominant political force in the state as PN won 14 out of 15 state seats and therefore two-thirds supermajority of the assembly. Therefore, State Chairman of PN of Perlis, State Commissioner of PAS of Perlis and Sanglang MLA Mohd Shukri replaced Azlan Man as the new and 10th Menteri Besar of Perlis and formed a new PN state administration on 22 November 2022. On 25 November 2022, Mohammad Azmir was appointed as the Perlis State EXCO Member in charge of Islamic Religion, Education, Youth, Sports, Human Resource Development, Information and Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) by Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri.^[2]

In the 2022 state election, Mohammad Azmir made his electoral debut after being nominated by PN to contest for the Santan state seat. He won the seat and was elected into the Perlis State Legislative Assembly as the Santan MLA after defeating EXCO Member and defending MLA Azizan Sulaiman of BN and Che Mazlina Che Yob of Pakatan Harapan (PH) by the majority of 2,108 votes.^[3]

Mohammad Azmir is also the Deputy Head of Ma'had Tahfiz, Al-Quran Al-Imam An Nawawi (MATIN), Chief of the Perlis Student Families in Egypt and Chief Advisor to the Perlis Student Families.