Abdul Latiff Ahmad Politician
Datuk Abdul Latiff Ahmad is a Malaysian politician and is the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Mersing constituency in the State of Johor. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party.Abdul Latiff was elected to the Johor State Legislative Assembly in 1995. He switched to federal politics in 1999, and thereafter served as Deputy Minister for Human Resources Ministry (1999 to 2004), Deputy Minister for Health (2004 to 2010) and Deputy Minister for Defence (2010 to 2013). He was left out of Najib Razak's ministry after the 2013 election, and was appointed as the chairman of the government-owned housing development company Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad.