00:00Marina Yusof, a prominent woman politician from the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 84.
00:08The former UMNO leader passed away at 5.16pm at a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Bernama reported.
00:16Her daughter, actress Ida Narina, said Marina breathed her last with family members at her side.
00:22Her body has been taken to the Saidina Umar Al-Katab Mosque in Bukit Damansara this morning for prayers before
00:30burial at the Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery.
00:32Following the 1987 UMNO elections and the party's subsequent registration, Marina joined Semangat 46, which Tengku Razali Hamza formed in
00:421989.
00:44In 1999, she joined PKR and became vice president under one Azizah Wan Ismail's leadership of the party.
00:50She contested the Wang Samadju parliamentary seat in 1999 under PKR's banner, but lost to Barca National's Zulhaslan Rafiq, who
01:00won by a 5,618-vote majority.
01:04Natasha Bust, FMT
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