Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq Explained

Abdel Wahab Abdel Razeq
Predecessor1:Adly Mansour
Alma Mater:Cairo University
Birth Place:Minya, Egypt
Deputy2:Hossam El-Khouly
Predecessor2:Ashraf Rashad
Term Start2:2020
Office2:Chairman of the Future of a Homeland
Term End1:June 2018
Term Start1:29 May 2016
Status1:Counselor
Office1:Chancellor of Supreme Constitutional Court
Deputy:Baaeddin Abu Shoqa, Phoebe Fawzi
Predecessor:Established
Term Start:18 October 2020
Office:President of the Senate
Party:Nation's Future Party
Successor1:Hanafy El Gebaly
Native Name Lang:ar

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]

Chancellor of the Court

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]

Party

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]

Votes

He received 287 votes of 300 cast in a vote to determine the Senate speaker.[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mustafa. NaDa. 18 October 2020. Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek Named Senate Speaker. live. 27 September 2023. Sada El-Balad. https://web.archive.org/web/20201031130903/https://see.news/abdel-wahab-abdel-razek-named-egypts-senate-speaker/. 31 October 2020.
  2. Web site: Speakers of Egypt's Senate and House of Representatives meet to discuss parliamentary coordination. 26 September 2023. Ahram Online. en. Gamal. Essam El-Din.
  3. Web site: Egypt's newly elected Senate holds opening session, new members sworn in. Daily News Egypt. 18 October 2020. 27 September 2023.
  4. Web site: 18 October 2020. Profile: Who is Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek, speaker of re-instated Senate?. 27 September 2023. EgyptToday.
  5. Web site: Speakers of Egypt's Senate and House of Representatives meet to discuss parliamentary coordination. 26 September 2023. Ahram Online. en. 21 October 2020. Gamal. Essam El-Din.
  6. Web site: Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt names Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek as new President CCJA. 21 August 2021. en-US.
  7. Web site: Egyptian parliament's majority party makes radical shake-up – Politics – Egypt. 26 September 2023. Ahram Online. en. 11 March 2020. Gamal. Essam El-Din.