Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka
Egyptian lawyer and politician
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Mohamed Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka is an Egyptian lawyer and politician. He is a professor of public law, and the former president of the New Wafd Party.
Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka | |
|---|---|
| بهاء الدين أبو شقة | |
| Chairman of the Wafd Party | |
| In office April 2018 – March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | El-Sayyid el-Badawi |
| Succeeded by | Abdel-Sanad Yamama |
| Personal details | |
| Party | New Wafd Party |
| Education | Faculty of Law, Cairo University |
| Occupation | Chairman |
Career
He is the founder of Abou-Shoka Advocates, a Cairo law practice,[1] and was a member of the Shura Council twice.[2]
In August 2010, he spoke out against boycotting the Egyptian parliamentary election, saying that it would be "like committing political suicide".[2]
He was announced as shadow minister of legal affairs in Al Wafd's shadow cabinet.[3]
After Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power in February 2011, Mubarak hired Abu Shoka as one of his defence team.[4]
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.[5] In mid-June 2012, he was named as a member of the revamped Constituent Assembly of Egypt.[6] Around that time he criticised the constitutionality of the law passed which attempted to bar Ahmed Shafik from standing in the 2012 presidential election.[7]
Abu Shoka was appointed to the House of Representatives by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2015, one of twenty members of parliament appointed by the President of the Republic. He served as head of the Legislative Committee of the Egyptian Parliament.[8] In 2018 he was voted leader of the Wafd Party, replacing El-Sayyid el-Badawi. He has vowed to transform the Wafd Party into a key player in the Egyptian political scene.[9] Abu Shoka was appointed second deputy speaker of the Egyptian Senate in 2020, alongside Phoebe Fawzy.[10] Abu Shoka ran against Abdel-Sanad Yamama in 2022 for party leadership and lost.[11]
He entered the race for the 2026 party leadership election on 5 January 2026,[12] though he withdrew on 15 January.[13] El-Badawi won the party election.[14]
