Badawi votes for Wafd Party’s new chairperson

CAIRO – 30 March 2018: The current leader of the Wafd Party, El-Sayed el-Badawi, participated in the election of Wafd’s new chairperson, which took place on Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Four candidates are running for the party’s chairmanship, after eight years under the leadership of Badawi, who held the position from 2010 for two four-year terms.

According to Wafd’s new regulations, he cannot run for this position for a third term.

Badawi said that he does not support a specific candidate, while he maintains the same distance in dealing with all the candidates.

Wafd Party members choose their new leader on Friday

CAIRO - 30 March 2018: The Wafd Party chairmanship election kicks off on Friday. The candidates include Wafd Party Secretary-General Bahaaeddin Abu Shoka; Hossam Al-Kholi, deputy chairman of the party; Yasser Hassan, head of the party's media committee; and Alaa Shawally, grandson of Saad Zaghloul, the late founder of the party.

Candidates to the chairmanship race include Wafd Party Secretary-General Bahaaeddin Abu Shoka; Hossam Al-Kholi, deputy chairman of the party; Yasser Hassan, head of the party’s media committee; and Alaa Shawally, grandson of Saad Zaghloul, the late founder of the party.

Wafd members are also voting on Badawi’s suggestions to change 15 articles of the party’s regulations.


Wafd members vote for their new chairperson - by Ashraf Fawzy

Early in the morning, Abu Shoka and Hossam Al-Kholi casted their votes in the election, while their supporters gathered outside the polling station holding banners with the candidates’ names.

Former Secretary-General of the Wafd Party and former Minister of Trade Monir Fakhry Abdelour also casted his vote, along with the chairman of Parliament's local government committee, Ahmed el-Segani, and Hany Sary el-Din, member of the supreme committee of the Wafd Party, as well as MP Talaat el-Swedi.

Abdelour showed his support for Abu Shoka, saying that he will be a president for all Wafd members who can bring them back to be one hand. Meanwhile, Sary el-Din voted for Kholi, saying that his electoral program is ambitious and that he is the best to lead the party in the next period.


Wafd members vote for their new chairperson - by Ashraf Fawzy


Wafd members vote for their new chairperson - by Ashraf Fawzy