President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday appointed 28 members to Egypt’s House of Representatives, including 14 women, according to a decree published in the Official Gazette, following the conclusion of parliamentary elections.
The appointments were made under Presidential Decree No. 16 of 2026. Three of the women appointed are members of the National Council for Women, according to the published decision.
Egypt’s House of Representatives law sets the chamber’s membership at 540 and allows the president to appoint no more than 5% of lawmakers.
Those appointed include former foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, former State Council chief Adel Azab, former higher education and scientific research minister Ashraf El-Shihy, former technical adviser to the housing minister Abdel Khaleq Awad and constitutional law professor Salah El-Din Fawzi, a member of the Legislative Reform Committee.
The list also includes former head of the Central Auditing Organization Hesham Badawy, Dar Al-Ifta’s secretary of the fatwa council Amr El-Wardany and Ambassador Naela Gabr, head of the National Coordinating Committee for Combating and Preventing Illegal Migration and Trafficking in Persons.
The National Council for Women members appointed were Manal Hamdy, Marian Magdy Ragheb, and Mirna Essam El-Din Aref.
Among the women academics appointed are Thoraya Ahmed El-Badawi, a State Information Service member and dean of Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communication; Randa Mostafa, a former Senate member and former vice president of Benha University; Hanaa El-Ebeisy, dean of Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Medicine for Girls; and Nashwa Aqel, a professor of radio and television at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communication.
The list also included former MP Amal Asfour of the Republican People’s Party and former MP Shereen Reda Tayel of the Wafd Party.
The decree follows the announcement on Saturday by National Elections Authority head Hazem Badawy of the final results of what he described as the longest parliamentary elections in Egypt’s political history.
El-Sisi on Thursday announced the end of the sixth parliamentary session, with the new House set to begin work within days. The Future of the Nation Party is expected to hold most seats, followed by independents, then the Homeland Protectors Party, the National Front and the Republican People’s Party.
