JENERI assemblyman Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor was sworn in as Kedah menteri besar today.

Sanusi, 49, who is Kedah Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman, took the oath of office before the sultan of Kedah Al-Aminul Karim Sultan Sallehuddin Sultan Badlishah at Istana Anak Bukit, Alor Star, at 10.15am.

Sanusi was reappointed menteri besar following PN’s big win in the state elections on Saturday. It scored 33 out of the 36 seats in the Kedah legislative assembly.

In the polls, Sanusi, who is also PAS Kedah deputy commissioner, retained the Jeneri seat after defeating Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Muhamad Khizri Abu Kassim with a majority of 16,050 votes.

He first contested in the 12th general election (GE12) in 2008 for the Belantek state seat but lost to BN candidate Mohd Tajudin Abdullah with 252 votes.

In GE14, he stood in Jeneri and won the state seat after defeating Mahadzir Abdul Hamid of BN and Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s Mohd Nazri Abu Hassan with a majority of 2,455 votes. – Bernama, August 14, 2023.