Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is a Malaysian politician who has served as 8th President of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and 6th Chairman the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition which is aligned with another ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition, since June 2018. He briefly served as 11th Leader of the Opposition from July 2018 to March 2019. He also served as the 11th Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Defence and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in the BN administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak from March 2008 to the collapse of the BN administration in May 2018. He has also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bagan Datuk since April 1995. However, as the leader of BN, which is the largest component coalition of the PN administration, he does not hold any Cabinet position in the PN administration mainly due to his allegations of corruption and court cases. As the Deputy President of UMNO and Deputy Chairman of BN, he temporarily took over the reins of the acting party President and acting coalition Chairman in May 2018 after the resignations of his predecessor Najib on 12 May 2018, he was subsequently elected as the party President in the 2018 UMNO leadership election and appointed the coalition Chairman on 30 June 2018. Deputy President of UMNO and Deputy Chairman of BN Mohamad Hasan also temporarily took over the reins as the acting party President and acting coalition Chairman when he took leave for more than half of a year from 18 December 2018 to 30 June 2019. He is the second President of UMNO after Onn Jaafar and first Chairman of BN who is not the Prime Minister.