Profile: Egypt’s Election Authority head Lasheen Ibrahim dies of coronavirus

CAIRO – 25 December 2020: Head of Egypt’s National Election Authority (NEA) Lasheen Ibrahim has died after suffering for more than 20 days from coronavirus.

Ibrahim died in a private hospital, where he received treatment from the novel virus. He will be buried in his hometown, Benha in the northern Qalyubia governorate, after Muslim’s afternoon (Asr) prayer.

Ibrahim has been the NEA head since August 2017, as per a presidential decree.

The authority on his watch has supervised many prominent election races, including the presidential elections in 2018 and a public referendum on major constitutional amendments in 2019.

This year, the NEA has supervised the reinstated Senate election and the House of Representatives election. He appeared in a good health condition while announcing the results in press conferences.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1980 and worked in the general prosecution shortly after graduation.

He became an attorney at the Public Funds Prosecution and then worked at the cassation prosecution office.

In 2010, the Supreme Judicial Council approved his secondment to serve in Kuwait, where he remained for 6 years.

He then returned to Egypt to assume his duties as deputy chief of the Court of Cassation.

His appointment as the NEA head came as he was nominated by the Supreme Judicial Council.