Sisi appoints Salafist party members to Egyptian Senate
Although the Salafist Nour party failed to secure any seats in the Senate, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi decided to appoint two party representatives to the Senate.
Ashraf Thabet and Mahmoud Turky, two members of the Salafist Nour party, took the oath of office Oct. 18 at the Senate opening session. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had appointed them as representatives of the Nour party in the Senate, the parliament’s upper house.
Turky, as the youngest Senate member, assisted Lt. Gen. Jalal Haridi, the most senior member, in running the inaugural session of the Senate.
In a statement Oct. 17, the Nour party thanked Sisi for appointing two of its members to the Senate, as part of the 100 members the president appoints to the 300-member Senate.
The presidential decision to appoint two members of the Nour party came after all of the party’s 16 candidates failed to secure any votes in the Senate elections in August.
