Hamdeen Sabahi (Arabic: حمدين صباحي, romanized: Ḥamdīn Ṣabāḥī, IPA:[ħæmˈdeːnsˤɑˈbɑːħi]; born 5 July 1954) is an Egyptian politician and journalist. He is currently the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current and a co-leader of the National Salvation Front. An opposition activist during the Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak eras, Sabahi was jailed 17 times during their presidencies for political dissidence.[2] He was an immediate supporter and participant of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.[2] Sabahi entered the 2012 Egyptian presidential race in which he finished third place with 21.5% of the vote trailing the second place candidate Ahmed Shafiq by a margin of 700,000 votes.[3] In the 2014 presidential election he was one of just two candidates. He ran second with less than 4% of the vote. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was declared the winner after attracting 22 million of the nearly 23 million votes cast.[4] Sisi was sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.
A well-known opposition figure, Sabahi ascribes to Nasserism and in 1996 he founded the Nasserist Karama (Dignity) Party.[5][6] Sabahi ran as an independent and not as the Dignity Party's candidate. One of the few secular figures without any ties to the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Sabahi has attracted the support of several leading Nasserists. Sabahi is running under the slogan "one of us" which highlights his strong ties with the working class and advocates his socialist aspirations. Sabahi also gained the support of prominent Egyptian figures including writer and political activist Alaa Al Aswany and director and film-writer Khaled Youssef.[5][7]
HamdeenSabahi (Arabic: حمدين صباحي, romanized: Ḥamdīn Ṣabāḥī, IPA: [ħæmˈdeːn sˤɑˈbɑːħi]; born 5 July 1954) is an Egyptian politician and journalist....
minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Egyptian Popular Current candidate HamdeenSabahi. El-Sisi won the election in a landslide victory, having received 97%...
Salma Sabahi is the daughter of politician, HamdeenSabahi, and is best known for her activism during and following the Egyptian Arab Spring uprising in...
dialogue on politics in Egypt and the wider region. Prominent Nasserist HamdeenSabahi competed in the first round of the 2012 Egyptian presidential election...
between five major candidates: Mohamed Morsi (25%), Ahmed Shafik (24%), HamdeenSabahi (21%), Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh (17%), and Amr Moussa (11%), with the...
after the 2012 presidential elections by former presidential candidate HamdeenSabahi. The movement was formed on 21 September 2012. The movement formed the...
diversity in its audience every week, including public figures such as HamdeenSabahi, Yosri Fouda, Elissa, Assala Nasri, Ziad Rahbani and Angham. Soon after...
of state institutions undermining and destroying the rule of law. HamdeenSabahi's presidential campaign warned of the "return to a state of suppression...
would be a major campaign violation. Fellow presidential candidate HamdeenSabahi, who finished in third place in the first round of voting, asked for...
rallying along Dokki's Tahrir Street and were joined by opposition leader HamdeenSabahi and prominent leftist filmmaker Khaled Youssef. It later merged with...
winning with 23.78 million votes, or 96.9% compared to 757,511 (3.1%) for HamdeenSabahi. After a wave of public discontent with the autocratic excesses[clarification...
Egyptian politician, writer and activist. He is the co-founder, along with HamdeenSabahi, of the Dignity Party (Al-Karama) and is currently a member of the People's...
candidate was actually more popular than the Dignity Party candidate HamdeenSabahi (20.7%), the independent candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh (17.5%)...
advancing to the second round Candidates losing in the first round HamdeenSabahi Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh Amr Moussa Mohammad Salim Al-Awa Khaled Ali...
– a Nobel Peace Prize laureate – and former presidential candidate HamdeenSabahi". Some other Islamic groups, particularly amongst Sufis, have also complained...
"advocates" of 25 January revolution and 30 June. The movement backed HamdeenSabahi in the 2014 Egyptian presidential election. "Candidates start medical...
attended the procession, including Sami Hafez Anan, Hussein Tantawi, HamdeenSabahi, Ahmed Shafiq, Amr Moussa and Kamal el-Ganzouri. Poland: Grand Cross...
ringleader of the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 HamdeenSabahi, Egyptian Politician, the leader of the Dignity Party and one of the...
development. Popular Current leader and former presidential candidate HamdeenSabahi said: "We support people, army, police against terrorism" and wrote...
alliance was established on 17 August 2014. Former presidential candidate HamdeenSabahi has criticized the alliance by stating that it represents "Mubarak-era...
assaulted and detained a number of individuals present at the scene. HamdeenSabahi has censured the court conviction sentencing Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel...
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