Ibrahim Shoukry

Ibrahim Shoukry (22 September 1916 – 5 August 2008) was an Egyptian politician.^{[citation needed]} He established the Socialist Labour Party in 1978.^[1]

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Political career

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He was first elected to parliament in 1945, as the youngest member. Later he was imprisoned for his articles against King Farouk of Egypt in 1952 whilst in parliament. In July 1952 members of the Egyptian army ousted Farouk, and Shoukry was freed to continue his journey in public service.

He was re-elected to Parliament and proposed the laws of agricultural reform to benefit deprived farmers, giving away acres of land that he owned himself. He was a pioneer of cultivating desert land expanding Egypt's agricultural activity from the confines of the narrow Nile delta and valley.

In 1974 he was appointed as Governor of Al Wadi Al Gadeed (the New Valley Governorate). He was Minister of Agriculture and Cultivation until his resignation in 1978 to found the Socialist Labour Party.

He was elected to parliament in 1978, 1984 and 1987, where he led the coalition of opposition parties against the ruling National Democratic Party headed by the then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Shoukry remained Head of the Labour Party until the Egyptian Government, supported by emergency law imposed since the beginning of Mubarak's rule in 1981, suspended the party and its official newspaper Al-Shaab (The People) in 2000 because of its fierce opposition of Mubarak's policies.

Early life and education

Military service

Political career

Personal life and death

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