Hamdeen Sabahi
Hamdeen Sabahi is an Egyptian politician, journalist and poet. He is currently the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current and a coleader of the National Salvation Front. An opposition activist during the Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak eras, Sabahi was jailedtimes during their presidencies for political dissidence. He was an immediate supporter and participant of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. 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. In the 2014 presidential election he was one of just two candidates. He ran second with less thanof the vote. Abdel Fattah elSisi was declared the winner after attractingmillion of the nearlymillion votes cast. Sisi sworn into office as President of Egypt onJune 2014.
Sabahi was born in a small Nile Delta town in Kafr elSheikh Governorate called Baltim in 1954 to a father who was a fellah . Of his eleven siblings, Sabahi was the youngest. His father had benefited from the land ownership reforms brought about after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Sabahi spent his childhood being around with farmers and fishermen and became a fisherman during adolescence.
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