Mohamed Bahaa Eldeen Abou Shaka is an Egyptian lawyer and politician. He is a professor of public law, and the current President of the

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. He is the founder of Abou-Shoka Advocates, a

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law practice, and was a member of the Shura Council twice.Gamal Essam El-Din
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'', Issue No. 1012, 26 August - 1 September 2010. In August 2010, he spoke out against boycotting the Egyptian parliamentary election, saying that it would be "like committing political suicide". He was announced as shadow minister of legal affairs in Al Wafd's shadow cabinet. After

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stepped down from power in February 2011, Mubarak hired Abu Shoka as one of his defence team. 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. In mid-June 2012, he was named as a member of the revamped

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. Around that time he criticised the constitutionality of the law passed which attempted to bar

Ahmed Shafik Ahmed Mohamed Shafik ZakiAlso spelled: ''Shafiq''. ( ar, أحمد محمد شفيق زكى, ; born 25 November 1941) is an Egyptian politician and former presidential candidate. He was a senior commander in the Egyptian Air Force and later ser ...

from standing in the 2012 presidential election. Abou Shaka was appointed to the

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by President Abdel Fatah El Sisi in 2015, one of twenty members of parliament appointed by the President of the Republic according to the

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. He is currently head of the Legislative Committee of the

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. In 2018 he was voted Leader of the Wafd Party, replacing El-Sayed El-Badawi. He has vowed to transform the Wafd Party into a key player in the Egyptian political scene.

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