Hee Yit Foong

Hee Yit Foong is a politician from the Malaysian state of Perak. She served as Deputy Speaker of the Perak State Legislative Assembly from March 2008 to February 2009. She was a member of the Democratic Action Party from the late 1980s until 2009. Hee, was state assemblywoman for Jelapang and was the first disabled woman to become the speaker of a Malaysian legislative body. Hee carries a limp from a case of polio she contracted at the age of 4.

On 4th February 2009, she was one of four assembly people who withdrew their support from the incumbent Pakatan Rakyat government. She announced that she would support the Barisan National coalition instead. This has prompted a political crisis in the state. Malaysian Insider which is one of the independent, non-mainstream online newspapers in Malaysia published an article entitled 'Remember the four frogs that fooled all' describing that Malaysians would always remember the four (one of whom is Hee Yit Foong) who had caused the downfall of the Perak government governed by the Pakatan Rakyat by defection not by fresh mandate from the people in their constituencies.