00:01PKR Secretary-General Fuzia Saleh has confirmed that Investment Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz has become a member of the party.
00:10Fuzia told FMT briefly that Tengku Zafrul's application to join the Pakatan Harapan party was approved by the Central Leadership Council when it met on July 26.
00:21Yesterday, Tengku Zafrul confirmed that he had become a member of PKR's Ampang division.
00:27The senator had announced his resignation from UMNO on May 30, thus relinquishing his positions as an UMNO Supreme Council member and Kota Raja UMNO chief.
00:38Tengku Zafrul had been an UMNO member since 1997 but was widely seen as a technocrat when appointed as Finance Minister in Muhyiddin Yassin's cabinet in March 2020, a role he retained in Ismail Sabir Yaqob's government.
00:51He resigned as Selangor UMNO treasurer in April last year, citing resistance to positive change before speculation of his exit from UMNO started swirling in December.
01:02Meanwhile, his second and final term as senator expires at the end of the year, after which he will have to step down as trade minister.
01:09Narmatha Raja, FMT.
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