The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the executive head of state of Egypt and the de facto appointee of the official head of government under the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. Under the various iterations of the Constitution of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952,the president is also the supreme commander of the Armed Forces,and head of the executive branch of the Egyptian government. The current president is Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,who has been in office since 8 June 2014.
The New Wafd Party,officially the Egyptian Wafd Party and also known as the Al-Wafd Party,is a nationalist liberal party in Egypt.
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Egypt since its introduction in the 2019 Egyptian constitutional referendum and the subsequent 2020 Egyptian Senate election. The current president of the Senate is Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq.
The Cabinet of Egypt is the chief executive body of the Arab Republic of Egypt. It consists of the Prime Minister and the cabinet ministers.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights or EIPR is an independent Egyptian human rights organization,established in 2002. It is a Cairo-based think tank.
The Free Egyptians Party is an Egyptian liberal party,founded after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It supports the principles of a liberal,democratic,and secular political order in Egypt. The Free Egyptians Party was the largest party in the House of Representatives. The party is a founding member of Al Hurriya Liberal Network.
Essam al-Din Muhammad Hussein el-Erian was an Egyptian physician and politician. He was the vice chairman of the Freedom And Justice Party. Formerly he was a member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was elected as a parliament member in the 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election. After the 2013 Egyptian coup,prosecutors ordered his arrest on 10 July 2013. On 14 July 2013,Egypt's new prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen. el-Erian was arrested by the government on 30 October 2013.
The Egyptian Constituent Assembly of 2012 (CA) is the committee for the creation of a new Constitution of Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood had announced that the Constituent Assembly would vote on the constitution on 29 November 2012. The Constituent Assembly will be able to avoid its possible dissolution by voting on the constitution earlier than the release of a ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court on the assembly's legitimacy;the ruling was expected to occur on 2 December 2012. The court has postponed the verdict in response to protests. The Constituent Assembly approved the constitution on 29 November 2012;more than 16 hours were spent voting on its articles.
The Strong Egypt Party is an Egyptian centrist political party founded in 2012 by former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.
Ahmed Mekki was the Minister of Justice of Egypt from 2 August 2012 until he submitted his resignation to President Morsi on 20 April 2013. He was a member of the Qandil Cabinet. Mekki was one of the independent ministers in the cabinet. He is the brother of the former vice president Mahmoud Mekki,who resigned from office on 22 December 2012.
Mohamed Bahaa Eldeen Abou Shaka is an Egyptian lawyer and politician. He is a professor of public law,and the current President of the New Wafd Party.
Senate elections were held in Egypt on 11 and 12 August 2020,with the diaspora voting on 9 and 10 August. Run-offs took place on 8–9 September,and their results were announced on 16 September.
Sameh Fahmi is an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as oil minister of Egypt for 12 years from 1999 to 2011.
Diaa al-Din Dawoud was an Egyptian politician and activist. He is the founder of the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party,serving as its secretary-general between 1992 and November 2010.
Adly Mahmoud Mansour is an Egyptian judge and politician who served as the president of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt. He also served as interim president of Egypt from 4 July 2013 to 8 June 2014 following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état by the military which deposed President Mohamed Morsi. Several secular and religious figures,such as the Grand Imam of al-Azhar,the Coptic Pope,and Mohamed ElBaradei supported the coup against President Morsi and the military appointed Mansour interim-president until an election could take place. Morsi refused to acknowledge his removal as valid and continued to maintain that only he could be considered the legitimate President of Egypt. Mansour was sworn into office in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court on 4 July 2013.
Hisham Muhammad Zaki Barakat was Prosecutor General of Egypt from 2013 to 2015. During his term as state prosecutor,he was responsible for thousands of controversial prosecutions,including several widely deemed politically motivated resulting in death sentences for hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. He was assassinated in a car bombing on 29 June 2015.
Ali Abdel Aal Sayyed Ahmed is an Egyptian law professor and politician. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives between 10 January 2016 and 12 January 2021. As law professor he worked at Ain Shams University and specialized in constitutional law.
A constitutional referendum was held in Egypt between 20 and 22 April 2019,The main proposed amendments were re-establishing the presidential term to six years,from four previously,and removing the limit of two terms on the president,thereby allowing President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to potentially remain in power until 2030. The changes were approved by 88.83% of voters who voted,with a 44% turnout.
Phoebe Fawzy Girgis is a journalist,women's activist and politician who serves as Second Deputy Speaker of the Egyptian Senate. Winning office on the Republican People's Party ticket at the 2020 Egyptian Senate elections,she is the first Coptic woman to serve in the parliament.
Hanafy Ali El Gebaly is an Egyptian politician. He is the president of the Egyptian parliament of the House of Representatives since October 2020. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives on 12 January 2021.
