SEENews conducted a poll on Monday seeking selecting one person for the Best Spokesperson in 2019 Award. The award went to Hany Younes, the media advisor of the Egyptian Cabinet.
Younes secured 68 percent of the total votes which reached more than 4000, according to two polls carried out on Facebook and Twitter.
However, after analyzing the votes which obtained by the other contenders, SEENews figured out that Counselor Ahmed Hafez, the official spokesperson of the ministry of foreign affairs, received more than 1300 votes, most of them came from foreign countries; mainly from Palestine.
Thus, SEENews staff in charge of the poll decided that the Most Popular Figure Abroad in 2019 Award will go to Hafez who is admired and respected by thousands of Egyptian expatriates and the other Arab countries’ nationals.
The poll was published on Monday and ended in the New Year Eve 2020.
SEENew wishes Hafez the best of luck in 2020.
Here are some reasons why Hafez was shortlisted at the first place by our staff.
- In October 2018, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry appointed Hafez as the new spokesman for the ministry.
- Hafez served as deputy head of Egypt’s Representation Office to the Palestinian National Authority in Ramallah.
- He also worked abroad at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as at the Egyptian Embassy in Tel Aviv.
- Hafez worked in the foreign minister’s office handling the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as well as serving as the director of Syria and Lebanon affairs during his tenure at the Ministry’s General Directorate.
- He also worked in the multilateral economic relations sector early in his diplomatic career.
- Hafez started his diplomatic career in 1999.
It’s noteworthy that SEENews’s Spokesperson of the Year 2019 Shortlist included:
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