Phahrolrazi bin Mohd Zawawi (born 8 September 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as Member of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Alor Mengkudu from May 2018 to August 2023 and for Pengkalan Kundor from March 2008 to May 2018 as well as from December 1999 to March 2004, Leader of the Opposition of Kedah from July 2020 to October 2022 and Member of the Kedah State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state administration under former Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak from March 2009 to February 2012.
In the 1999 Kedah state election, he was nominated by his party PAS to contest for the Pengkalan Kundor against BN candidate Abdul Ghani Jamaludin, Chairperson of UMNO Kuala Kedah branch and went on to defeat him to be elected as the new Pengkalan Kundor MLA for his first term with a majority of 697 votes.
However this time, he was defeated by another candidate from BN and UMNO Mohd Jamil Md Idross who was also the Pengkalan Kundor MLA with a minority of 3,429 votes.
PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali directed his vice -president, Salahuddin Ayub, to Kedah as a mediator to help resolve the crisis.
Pharolrazi is a leading figure in the moderate 'Erdogan' faction of PAS, named after the Turkish Prime Minister and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
During PAS's term in state government from 2008 to 2013, he emerged as a leadership rival to the Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) Azizan Abdul Razak, of the party's conservative ulama faction.
Instead, PH was contested by former Pokok Sena MP, Mahfuz Omar from AMANAH, another component party of Pakatan Harapan and won by Muhamad Radhi Mat Din of Perikatan Nasional (PN) in the election.
Phahrolrazi said the Kedah AMANAH had conveyed its firm stance to the central leadership, even to the extent of wanting to pull out of GE15 if the seat was given to DAP.
On 31 October 2022 following his removal from AMANAH, the component party of PH opposition coalition, a day prior on 30 October 2022, he became an independent Kedah MLA, disqualifying him from holding the position, he was replaced with Johari Abdul, the Gurun MLA from another component party of PH, the PKR.
[14] On 13 March 2023, Speaker of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly Juhari Bulat clarified it and confirmed that Phahrolrazi had joined PKR.