Siapa pair in kitingan biography

Malaysian politicianThis article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Pairin, and not as baptismal name is Joseph.

Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Joseph Pairin Kitingan (born 17 August ) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Sabah from April to March and Member of Parliament (MP) for Keningau from August to May He is founding President of the United Sabah Party (PBS) and brother of Jeffrey Kitingan, the Deputy Chief Minister I and State Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of Sabah and President of Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) as well as uncle of Maximus Ongkili, the former Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Sabah and Sarawak affairs and former President of PBS.

He is the longest-serving MP in Sabah.

Personal life

Pairin was born in Papar but his hometown is in the interior district of Tambunan, to a retired police officer, Datuk Francis Xavier Kit