Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today appointed Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouli as the country's Prime Minister and assigned him to form the new Cabinet.
Madbouli's elevation to the post comes two days after Prime Minister Sherif Ismail submitted his resignation following Sisi's swearing-in as the head of state for a second term until 2022.
Ismail's move was in line with the political tradition that the government should resign at the start of a new presidential term.
"President El-Sisi received Dr Mostafa Madbouly today to commission him to form the new government," ahramonline quoted Bassam Radi, the president's official spokesperson, as saying.
Madbouli, 52, served as an interim prime minister from November 2017 to the end of January this year, while Ismail received medical treatment abroad.
He was appointed minister of housing in February 2014 in the Cabinet of then-prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab, and kept his position when Ismail was appointed as premier in September 2015.
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Madbouli is an architect and urban designer who served as the director of the UN's Habitat Regional Office for Arab States from 2012 until 2014.
He also served as chairman of Egypt's General Organisation of Urban Planning from 2009 until 2011.
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