Ahmed Abdeen | |
|---|---|
| Minister of State for Local Development | |
| In office 2 August 2012 –5 January 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Hisham Qandil |
| Preceded by | Mohamed Attia |
| Succeeded by | Mohammed Ali Beshr |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Political party | Independent |
Ahmed Zaki Abdeen or Abdin is a retired Egyptian military officer and former minister of state for local development in the Qandil cabinet.
Abdeen is a retired military general. [1] [2] He was appointed head of Dar El-Hayaa El-Handasia which is affiliated with the armed forces. He also worked as an engineer officer in Egypt's Armed Forces [3] and a military attaché at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington,D.C. from 1993 to 1995. [1] He then served as the head of the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics,and of the CCAMLR construction cooperatives. He was appointed governor of Beni Suef in 2006. [3] Then he was named as the governor of Kafr El-Sheikh in 2008. [1] [4] He retained his post in the August 2011 reshuffle of governors and it led to protests due Abdeen's alleged close link to National Democratic Party. [5]
He was appointed minister of state for local development on 2 August 2012,replacing Mohamed Attia. [6] [7] His major function in this post was to maintain a link between the central government and all the regional governors and assemblies. [1] The other main function of him was to organize local council elections. [1] When he was in office,his proposal to close down shops at 10 pm in Egypt led to controversy. [8] This controversial proposal was not put into effect. [8] Abdeen was replaced by Mohammed Ali Beshr as minister of state for local development in a cabinet reshuffle on 5 January 2013. [8]