predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp religion party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
abdul mat saman -lrb- umno -rrb- rahman ibrahim -lrb- umno -rrb- wan hanafiah wan malaysian abdul rahman ibrahim -lrb- umno -rrb- kedah , federation of malaya -lrb- now malaysia -rrb- pokok sena , kedah sunni islam pas -- pakatan rakyat 25 august 1957 2008 1999 mahfuz omar
 2004 mahfuz omar politician
mahfuz omar

dato ' haji mahfuz omar -lrb- born 25 august 1957 -rrb- is a malaysian politician and is the member of the parliament of malaysia for the pokok sena constituency in the state of kedah , malaysia .
he is a member of the pan-malaysian islamic party -lrb- pas -rrb- in the opposition pakatan rakyat coalition .
mahfuz was the head of pas 's youth wing from 1999 to 2003 .
under his leadership , pas youth was a progressive voice within pas , advocating for the party to join the barisan alternatif coalition with the democratic action party -lrb- dap -rrb- and the people 's justice party -lrb- pkr -rrb- .
mahfuz 's leadership of pas was the culmination of a long period of his activism within the party .
he and a group of other pas politicians were detained under the internal security act in 1985 , a period of intense and often violent hostility between pas and the governing united malays national organisation -lrb- umno -rrb- .
he was briefly jailed again in 2000 for participating in an unauthorised protest rally against an israeli cricket team visiting malaysia .
mahfuz was elected to parliament in 1999 but was defeated in the 2004 election by abdul rahman ibrahim of the governing barisan nasional coalition .
mahfuz won back the seat at the 2008 election with a majority of 5,371 votes .
he was re-elected in 2013 , while all other pas parliamentary candidates in kedah were defeated .
