Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

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Wan Azizah binti Wan Ismail (born 3 December 1952) is a Malaysian politician and the current spouse of the prime minister of Malaysia as the wife of Anwar Ibrahim. She first entered parliament in 1999, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bandar Tun Razak since 2022 as a member of the People's Justice Party. She is the first woman to serve as deputy prime minister of Malaysia, a position she held from 2018 to 2020. Born in the Colony of Singapore, Wan Azizah graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She practised medicine, specialised in ophthalmology, and served as a government doctor for 14 years before leaving in 1993. Entering politics in 1998 after her husband's dismissal as the 7th deputy prime minister of Malaysia, she led the Reformasi movement and founded the National Justice Party (PKN), later People's Justice Party (PKR), becoming the second woman to lead a parliamentary party in Malaysia. She won the Permatang Pauh seat in 1999, retained it in 2004...

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