Azmi Khalid

{{short description|Malaysian politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dato' Seri

| name = Azmi Khalid

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=MYS|size=100%|PSM|SPMP (Perlis)|DPMP (Perlis)|SIMP|DGSM|SMP (Perlis)}}

| native_name = {{nobold|عزمي خالد}}

| image =

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| office = Minister of Natural Resources and Environment

| term_start = 14 February 2006

| term_end = 18 March 2008

| monarch = Mizan Zainal Abidin

| primeminister = Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

| deputy = Sothinathan Sinna Goundar {{small|(2004–2008)}}

| predecessor = Adenan Satem

| successor = Douglas Uggah Embas

| constituency = Padang Besar

| office2 = Minister of Home Affairs

| term_start2 = 27 March 2004

| term_end2 = 14 February 2006

| monarch2 = Mizan Zainal Abidin

| primeminister2 = Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

| deputy2 = Tan Chai Ho

| predecessor2 = Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

| successor2 = Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad

| constituency2 = Padang Besar

| office3 = Minister of Rural Development

| term_start3 = 15 December 1999

| term_end3 = 26 March 2004

| monarch3 = Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah
Syed Sirajuddin

| primeminister3 = Mahathir Mohamad
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

| deputy3 = Palanivel Govindasamy

| predecessor3 = Annuar Musa

| successor3 = Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin {{small|as Minister of Rural and Regional Development}}

| constituency3 = Padang Besar

| office4 = Deputy Minister of Home Affairs II

| term_start4 = 2 July 1997

| term_end4 = 14 December 1999

| alongside4 = Ong Ka Ting {{small|(Deputy Minister of Home Affairs I)}}

| monarch4 = Ja'afar
Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah

| primeminister4 = Mahathir Mohamad

| minister4 = Mahathir Mohamad

| predecessor4 = Megat Junid Megat Ayub

| constituency4 = Padang Besar

| office5 = Parliamentary Secretary in the Prime Minister's Department

| term_start5 = 1995

| term_end5 = 1997

| alongside5 = Muhammad Abdullah

| monarch5 = Ja'afar

| primeminister5 = Mahathir Mohamad

| minister5 = Abdul Hamid Othman
Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha
Chong Kah Kiat
Siti Zaharah Sulaiman
Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali

| 1blankname5 = Deputy Minister

| 1namedata5 = Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz
Raja Ariffin Raja Sulaiman
Ibrahim Saad
Ibrahim Ali
Fauzi Abdul Rahman

| predecessor5 =

| successor5 = Noh Omar

| constituency5 = Padang Besar

| constituency_MP6 = Padang Besar

| parliament6 = Malaysian

| term_start6 = 25 April 1995

| term_end6 = 5 May 2013

| predecessor6 = new constituency

| successor6 = Zahidi Zainul Abidin
(BN–UMNO)

| majority6 = 10,070 (1995)
4,519 (1999)
9,265 (2004)
5,348 (2008)

| office8 = Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat

| subterm8 = 1995–2013

| suboffice8 = Barisan Nasional

| birth_name = Azmi bin Khalid

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|12|13|df=y}}{{cite web|url=https://govdocs.sinarproject.org/documents/state-governments/perlis/government-of-perlis-gazette/psgn023y2005.pdf|title=SENARAI KEHORMATAN HARI KEPUTERAAN DULI YANG MAHA MULIA TUANKU RAJA PERLIS PADA 17 MEI 2005|publisher=Warta Kerajaan Negeri Perlis|language=ms}}

| birth_place = Perlis, Unfederated Malay States (now Malaysia)

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| death_date =

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| party = United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) (until ?)
Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) (?-present)

| otherparty = Barisan Nasional (BN) (until ?)
Perikatan Nasional (PN) (?-present)

| occupation = Politician

| relations =

| spouse = Yasmin Abdullah {{small|(Deceased)}}
Normala Shamsuddin

| children =

| website =

| footnotes =

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Azmi bin Khalid (Jawi: عزمي خالد; born 13 December 1940) is a Malaysian politician who served as Minister of Natural Resources and Environment and Member of Parliament (MP) for Padang Besar from April 1995 to May 2013. He was also a minister in the federal Cabinet from 1999 to 2008, as a member of the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) in the then-ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.

Tan Sri Azmi's first ministerial appointment was as Minister of Rural Development, becoming the first Cabinet minister from Perlis.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=rW8WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=axQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6687,514772&dq=azmi+khalid+cabinet&hl=en|title=A stronger, more confident line-up reflected in the Cabinet|date=11 December 1999|work=New Straits Times|publisher=New Straits Times Press|access-date=22 March 2010}} He became the Minister of Home Affairs in 2004,{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/27/1080330989051.html|title=PM unveils new cabinet after election landslide|date=28 March 2004|work=Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date=22 March 2010}} before moving to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/2/15/nation/13395840&sec=nation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622001641/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2006%2F2%2F15%2Fnation%2F13395840&sec=nation|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 June 2011|title=PM has eye on the big picture |last=Tan|first=Joceline|date=15 February 2006|work=The Star|access-date=22 March 2010}} He lost his Cabinet position after the 2008 election for reasons tied to his involvement in political disruption in Perlis.{{cite news|url=http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Malaysia/Story/A1Story20080320-55448.html|title=PM breaks away from Cabinet he inherited|date=20 March 2008|work=AsiaOne|publisher=Singapore Press Holdings|access-date=22 March 2010}} He did not re-contest Padang Besar in the 2013 election.

In 2005, Azmi married television personality Normala Shamsuddin. He has four children to his late wife Yasmin Abdullah.{{cite news|url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/10/13/nation/12309061&sec=nation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051211175445/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2005%2F10%2F13%2Fnation%2F12309061&sec=nation |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 December 2005 |title=Azmi: Normala a blessing |date=13 October 2005 |work=The Star |access-date=22 March 2010 }}