Politician, Hasan Malek was the Deputy Minister in the Prime Miister's Department under PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the fifth prime minister of Malaysia who received several honors from Malaysia before receiving a vote of no confidence by the Sabah Progressive Party in June of 2008.
After the 2008 election he became a deputy minister, and after the 2013 election, he was appointed as the Minister of Domestic Trade Cooperative and Consumerism in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Razak. 
