High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yang Berhomat Saifuddin Nasution Ismail is a Malaysian politician and is currently the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Machang constituency in Kelantan, Malaysia. He is a member of Keadilan in the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition. Saifuddin was a member of the youth wing of the ruling UMNO party but was expelled in 1999 as its assistant secretary. An ally of Anwar Ibrahim, Saifuddin then defected to the opposition Keadilan party. Saifuddin rose to prominence as an opposition figure by winning a by-election for the Kedah state assembly seat of Lunas in 2000. However he failed in his bid to be elevated to the federal Parliament in the 2004 election, losing to UMNO's Lim Bee Kau in the seat of Padang Serai. In the 2008 election, Saifuddin contested and won the federal seat of Machang in Kelantan.