Aboul Enein, Saad Al-Din Elected As Egypt's Parliament Speaker Deputies

MP Mohamed Aboul Enein, Prominent businessman, and MP Ahmed Saad Al-Din were elected as the new Egyptian Parliament's deputies during the plenary session held today Tuesday under the newly elected Speaker Hanafy Ali El Gebali.

The number of MPs who voted for the deputy positions was 568.

Aboul Enein won a total of 412 votes, meanwhile, Saad Al-Din got 485 votes.

Other candidates for the post included Suleiman Wahdan (125 votes), Farida El Shobashi (71 votes), Hanan Abdel Moneim (6 votes), Muhammad Abdulaziz (75 votes), Sahar Bashir Maatouk (5 votes) and Muhammad al-Jabalawi (11 votes).

Notably, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court Chancellor Hanafy Ali El Gebali was elected, Tuesday as the new Speaker of Egypt’s House of representatives.

Other three candidates competed Gebali for the Speaker’s post, included former official at the Administrative Control Authority Mohamed Salah Abou Hemela, Medical doctor Ahmed Abdel Hakim Youssef Darag and Mohamed Medina, member of Al Wafd Party.

Members of the parliament cast their ballots electing the new speaker during the inaugural session of Parliament 2021, which was headed by Farida Shobashi as the oldest member. She is also the first woman to chair the opening session of the House of Representatives.

Aboul Enein's Biography

Mohamed M. Abou El Enein was born on September 5, 1951. He is an Egyptian businessman, investor, public figure and politician.

He is the chairman and founder of Cleopatra Group and the founder of many major projects spread all over Egypt. He has been a Member of Parliament for over 15 years, from 1995 to 2011, being chosen as the Chairman of many Committees and as a representative in many international assemblies.

He won several international awards and certificates of honor for his contribution to the various fields of business.

Abou El Enein founded Cleopatra Group in 1983. At the time, he started with the ceramics industry, with one factory. Within a very short period of time, this business expanded to encompass 60% of the local market share, in addition to opening up business in new international markets. Based on this leap forward.

Abou El Enein's business ventures were persified to include the areas of agriculture, mining, real estate, tourism, media, high-tech projects and aviation (Abou El Enein is also a certified pilot).