Abdul Manan Ismail


Abdul Manan bin Ismail was a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the Paya Besar constituency in Pahang. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation major component party in the previous governing Barisan Nasional coalition.
Abdul Manan served was a long-serving private secretary to Najib Razak while the latter was a federal minister. In 2004 general election, he was elected to the Pahang State Legislative Assembly, representing the constituency of Panching.
In the 2008 general election, Abdul Manan contested the Paya Besar parliamentary constituency, replacing former government minister Siti Zaharah Sulaiman as UMNO's nominee for the seat. Abdul Manan won the seat, defeating Mohd Jafri Ab Rashid of the People's Justice Party by an 8,503 majority. In 2010 he was appointed chairman of the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia, and in 2013 general election he retained his parliamentary seat with a margin of 7,715 votes.

Death

Abdul Manan died on February 12, 2018 at the age of 69 of suspected heart attack after falling in a bathroom.

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