Hassan Shehata won the presidency General Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions He won 245, while his rival, Adel Abdel-Fadil, got 170 votes. The committee supervising the elections said that 481 members of the general assembly have the right to vote, and 420 voters participated in the vote, while 5 votes were declared invalid, and 61 voters missed the vote.
On Sunday evening, five in the evening, the direct secret vote to choose a new president for the General Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions ended, as Hassan Shehata, Secretary-General of the Federation and President of the General Union of Air Transport, and Adel Abdel-Fadil competed for the seat for the new four-year trade union session 2022/2026. Union Treasurer and President of the General Syndicate of Finance, Taxes and Customs in the previous session 2018-2022.
The electoral process for the presidency of the General Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions began today, Sunday, at the union’s headquarters, since this morning and continued until five, and the result will be appealed tomorrow, Monday, and the grievances will be decided on June 28, and the papers will be deposited the next day, corresponding to June 29, 2022.
The Supreme Elections Committee indicated that the 481 members of the General Assembly of the General Federation of Egyptian Trade Unions participated in voting in the electoral process, and confirmed that the electoral process took place from the first hours in calm and ease, with a large turnout of members of the General Assembly to cast their votes, looking forward to a union organization Nazih, in which all workers are represented within their labor union, in order to ensure the rights of workers and provide a decent work environment.