Abdel Wahab Abdel Razeq | |
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عبد الوهاب عبد الرازق | |
President of the Senate | |
Assumed office 18 October 2020 | |
Deputy | Baaeddin Abu Shoqa,Phoebe Fawzi |
Preceded by | Established |
Chancellor of Supreme Constitutional Court | |
Counselor | |
In office 29 May 2016 –June 2018 | |
Preceded by | Adly Mansour |
Succeeded by | Hanafy El Gebaly |
Chairman of the Future of a Homeland | |
Assumed office 2020 | |
Deputy | Hossam El-Khouly |
Preceded by | Ashraf Rashad |
Personal details | |
Born | 1948 (age 75–76) Minya,Egypt |
Political party | Nation's Future Party |
Alma mater | Cairo University |
Abdel Wahab Abdel Razeq (born 1948) is an Egyptian senator,elected as the Senate President on 18 October 2020. [1] He was Chancellor of the Supreme Constitutional Court until 2018. [2]
Abdel Razek,a judge of the Supreme Court,was born 1948 in Minya,he earned his bachelor's degree in law from Cairo University in 1969. He was and appointed assistant prosecutor in the Accountability State Authority in 1971;he became the permanent secretary to Attorney General in the Ministry of Justice and also deputy secretary in the State Council in 1987. He became a prosecutor in the State Council in 1989. He was also the legal consultant to the Kuwaiti Cabinet from 1992 to 1998 and became the adviser to commissioners authority of the Supreme Constitutional Court until 1994,at which point which became the head of the authority. He was appointed deputy Chancellor of Supreme Constitutional Court in 2011. [3]
He became Chancellor of the Court in May 2016 after serving as the deputy since 2011;he left in June 2018 after a two-year term. [4] [5]
He joined the Supreme Constitutional Court in 2011 as deputy,he was appointed as alternative to his predecessor due to an age limit retirement in May 2016,he was appointed under 2014 Constitution Article 193. [6] As a courts panel commissioners member,he was among the judges who were in favour of dissolving the 2012 parliament,which at the time was mostly occupied by the Freedom and Justice Party and Salafists from the Nour Party. Still in the court,he also issued rulings in favour of invalidating the political disenfranchisement law of the old Shura Council that was controlled by the Freedom and Justice Party. [7]
He is also the chairman of the Nation's Future Party chosen by the party members of the Parliament. He served as a member of 2014 Presidential Election Committee and was a member in the foundation of the Future of a Homeland Party along with the President Abdel-Fatah El-Sisi in 2014. [7]
He received 287 votes of 300 cast in a vote to determine the Senate speaker. [1]
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