Hanafy El Gebaly Explained

Hanafy Ali El Gebaly
Party:Independent politician
Office1:Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court
Office:Speaker of the House of Representatives
Term Start:12 January 2021
Predecessor:Ali Abdel Aal
Status1:Chancellor
Term Start1:March 2018
Term End1:June 2019
Predecessor1:Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq
Deputy:Mohamed M. Abou El Enein, Ahmed Saad Eddine
Birth Date:14 July 1949
Birth Place:Cairo, Egypt
Alma Mater:Cairo University
Successor1:Saeed Marie

Hanafy Ali El Gebaly (born 1949) 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.

El-Gebali previously served as chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court.[1]

Early life

He was born 14 July 1949 in Cairo, Egypt,

He graduated from Cairo University in 1975 and got a post diploma from Ain Shams University in 1977 in criminal law. He earned a PhD in Constitutional law.[2]

Career

He started working in the judicial department and rose to become deputy Attorney General in 1978. He was moved down to Constitutional Court at State Council in 2001 as member and became deputy judge in 2005. He served as a secretary-general of the Union of Arab Constitutional Courts from 2011– 2018. He retired from the judicial board in 2019 and joined the Parliament after serving as the chief of Supreme Constitutional Court in 2019.[3]

When serving as the head of SCC, he issued many rulings in cases up to 227.[4]

He published books that have been translated into different languages.

Votes

He polled 508 votes out of 576 votes of the parliament and the majority of the votes came from the National List for Egypt party. He has been elected into parliament since 2019.[5]

Tiran and Sanafir island controversy

As a judge he approved the maritime border agreement between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Cairo had agreed to cede the island of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia in 2016. Later President Sisi signed the agreement. This caused great irritation to many opposition politicians. When Tiran and Sanafir were transferred, many citizens protested and objections were made against the decision. Gebali claimed that it was the government's decision.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A new boss in the House . 2021-08-17 . Enterprise . en.
  2. Web site: Judge Hanafy El-Gebaly elected speaker of Egypt's new House of Representatives he has 2 children- Politics - Egypt. 2021-08-17. Ahram Online. en.
  3. Web site: Judge Hanafy El-Gebaly elected speaker of Egypt's new House of Representatives - Politics - Egypt. 2021-08-17. Ahram Online. en.
  4. Web site: 2021-01-12. Meet newly-elected speaker of Egypt's parliament Hanafy Ali El Gebali. 2021-08-17. EgyptToday.
  5. Web site: 2021-01-13. Former judge elected as Egypt's new parliament speaker. 2021-08-17. Middle East Monitor. en-GB.
  6. Web site: Egyptian who ruled in favor of ceding key islands to Saudi Arabia voted parliament speaker - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East. 2021-08-17. www.al-monitor.com. en.