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(Redirected from Hanafy Gebali) Egyptian judge and politician
Hanafy El Gebaly
حنفي جبالي
El Gebaly in 2021
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 January 2021
DeputyMohamed M. Abou El Enein, Ahmed Saad Eddine
Preceded byAli Abdel Aal
Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court
Chancellor
In office
March 2018 – June 2019
Preceded byAbdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq
Succeeded bySaeed Marie
Personal details
Born (1949-07-14) 14 July 1949 (age 75)
Cairo, Egypt
Political partyIndependent politician
Alma materCairo University

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

References

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  2. "Judge Hanafy El-Gebaly elected speaker of Egypt's new House of Representatives he has 2 children- Politics - Egypt". Ahram Online. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  3. "Judge Hanafy El-Gebaly elected speaker of Egypt's new House of Representatives - Politics - Egypt". Ahram Online. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  4. "Meet newly-elected speaker of Egypt's parliament Hanafy Ali El Gebali". EgyptToday. 2021-01-12. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  5. "Former judge elected as Egypt's new parliament speaker". Middle East Monitor. 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  6. "Egyptian who ruled in favor of ceding key islands to Saudi Arabia voted parliament speaker - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East". www.al-monitor.com. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
Political offices
Preceded byAli Abdel Aal Speaker of the House of Representatives
12 January 2021 - present 		Current holder
Political offices
Preceded byAbdel-Wahab Abdel-Razeq Chancellor of the Supreme Constitutional Court
March 2018 - June 2019 		Succeeded bySaeed Marie
Speaker of Parliament of Egypt
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