Hanafy El Gebaly
Hanafy El Gebaly | |
|---|---|
حنفي جبالي | |
 El Gebaly in 2021 | |
| Speaker of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 12 January 2021 | |
| Deputy | Mohamed M. Abou El Enein,Ahmed Saad Eddine |
| Preceded by | Ali Abdel Aal |
| Chief Justice of theSupreme Constitutional Court | |
Chancellor | |
| In office March 2018 – June 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq |
| Succeeded by | Saeed Marie |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 July 1949 Cairo, Egypt |
| Political party | Independent politician |
| Alma mater | Cairo University |
Hanafy Ali El Gebaly(born 1949) is an Egyptian politician. He is the president of theEgyptian parliamentof theHouse of Representativessince October 2020. He was elected asSpeaker of the House of Representativeson 12 January 2021.
El-Gebali previously served as chief justice of theSupreme Constitutional Court.[1]
Early life
[edit]He was born 14 July 1949 inCairo,Egypt,
He graduated fromCairo Universityin 1975 and got a post diploma fromAin Shams Universityin 1977 in criminal law. He earned a PhD in Constitutional law.[2]
Career
[edit]He started working in the judicial department and rose to become deputy Attorney General in 1978. He was moved down to Constitutional Court atState Councilin 2001 as member and became deputy judge in 2005. He served as a secretary-general of the Union of Arab Constitutional Courts from 2011– 2018. He retired from the judicial board in 2019 and joined the Parliament after serving as the chief ofSupreme Constitutional Courtin 2019.[3]
When serving as the head ofSCC,he issued many rulings in cases up to 227.[4]
He published books that have been translated into different languages.
Votes
[edit]He polled 508 votes out of 576 votes of the parliament and the majority of the votes came from the National List for Egypt party. He has been elected into parliament since 2019.[5]
Tiran and Sanafir island controversy
[edit]As a judge he approved the maritime border agreement between Egypt andSaudi Arabia.Cairohad agreed to cede the island ofTiranandSanafirto Saudi Arabia in 2016. LaterPresident Sisisigned the agreement. This caused great irritation to many opposition politicians. When Tiran and Sanafir were transferred, many citizens protested and objections were made against the decision. Gebali claimed that it was the government's decision.[6]
References
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- ^"Judge Hanafy El-Gebaly elected speaker of Egypt's new House of Representatives he has 2 children- Politics - Egypt".Ahram Online.Retrieved2021-08-17.
- ^"Judge Hanafy El-Gebaly elected speaker of Egypt's new House of Representatives - Politics - Egypt".Ahram Online.Retrieved2021-08-17.
- ^"Meet newly-elected speaker of Egypt's parliament Hanafy Ali El Gebali".EgyptToday.2021-01-12.Retrieved2021-08-17.
- ^"Former judge elected as Egypt's new parliament speaker".Middle East Monitor.2021-01-13.Retrieved2021-08-17.
- ^"Egyptian who ruled in favor of ceding key islands to Saudi Arabia voted parliament speaker - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East".al-monitor.Retrieved2021-08-17.