Egypt’s House of Representatives, which held its opening procedural session on Sunday, elected MP al-Sayyed al-Sharif as one deputy to elected speaker Ali Abdelaal.
Abdelaal announced that al-Sharif, a former member of the dissolved National Democratic Party, won 345 votes, outstripping Alaa Abdel Moneim who won 225.
Al-Sharif ran through the For the Love of Egypt electoral list (FLE), which has formed Support Egypt, a majority parliamentary bloc of nearly 400 members from the chamber’s 596 MPs. He served as an MP between 1995 and 2000.
Al-Sharif is the current chairman of the so-called Al-Ashraf Syndicate, an assembly of descendants of Prophet Muhammed and his immediate family.
Elections will be rerun Monday for the post of the second deputy speaker, pitting Abdel Moneim against Suleiman Wahdan.
The Sunday opening session was the longest in the history of Egyptian parliaments, extending for 17 hours from 9 a.m on Sunday to 2 a.m. on Monday.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
