Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka

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Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka
بهاء الدين أبو شقة
Education Faculty of Law, Cairo University
Occupation Chairman
Political party New Wafd Party

Mohamed Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka is an Egyptian lawyer and politician. He is a professor of public law, and the current president of the New Wafd Party.

Career

He is the founder of Abou-Shoka Advocates, a Cairo law practice, [1] and was a member of the Shura Council twice. [2]

In August 2010, he spoke out against boycotting the Egyptian parliamentary election, saying that it would be "like committing political suicide". [2]

He was announced as shadow minister of legal affairs in Al Wafd's shadow cabinet. [3]

After Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power in February 2011, Mubarak hired Abu Shoka as one of his defence team. [4]

In May 2012 Abu Shoka questioned the secretive judicial decision to lift a travel ban on foreign NGO workers accused of raising US funds without appropriate government authorization. [5] In mid-June 2012, he was named as a member of the revamped Constituent Assembly of Egypt. [6] Around that time he criticised the constitutionality of the law passed which attempted to bar Ahmed Shafik from standing in the 2012 presidential election. [7]

Abu Shoka was appointed to the House of Representatives by President Abdel Fatah El Sisi in 2015, one of twenty members of parliament appointed by the President of the Republic according to the Egyptian Constitution. He is currently head of the Legislative Committee of the Egyptian Parliament. [8] In 2018 he was voted leader of the Wafd Party, replacing El-Sayyid el-Badawi. He has vowed to transform the Wafd Party into a key player in the Egyptian political scene. [9]

References

  1. ↑ aboushoka.com
  2. 1 2 Gamal Essam El-Din (26 August – 1 September 2010). "Race of signatures". Al-Ahram Weekly .
  3. ↑ ""اليوم السابع" ينشر تشكيل حكومة الظل الوفدية برئاسة على السلمى.. الطويل لـ"العدل" وعبد النور لـ"الاقتصاد" وعمرو أديب لـ"الإعلام".. وحقائب لـ"شئون سيناء" و"السودان" و"حقوق الإنسان" و"المصريين بالخارج"". Youm7 . 23 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 April 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Mubarak's trial adjourned to March 8". The Egyptian Gazette. Masress. 5 March 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  5. ↑ Ekram Ibrahim (4 March 2012). "Lawyer questions secretive judicial decisions in Egypt NGO case". Ahram Online . Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Official: The 100 members of Egypt's revamped Constituent Assembly". Ahram Online . 12 June 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  7. ↑ Dina Zayed (13 June 2012). "Egyptians face nerve-wrecking court sessions". Reuters . Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "10 معلومات عن بهاء أبو شقة رئيس الوفد الجديد.. تعرف عليها - اليوم السابع". Youm7 (in Arabic). 31 March 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  9. ↑ "بهاء الدين أبو شقة: حزب الوفد سيكون لاعبا أساسيا علي المسرح السياسي". Ahram Gate (in Arabic). Retrieved 22 December 2025.
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