Younes Makhioun
| Younes Makhioun | |
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| Chairman of Al-Nour Party | |
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Assumed office 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Emad Abdel Ghaffour |
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| Born |
25 December 1955 Abu Hummus, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Political party | Nour Party |
| Alma mater | Alexandria University |
| Profession | Dentist |
Zakaria Younes Abdel-Halim Makioun (Arabic: زكريا يونس عبد الحليم مخيون) is an Egyptian MP who is currently the Chairman of the Salafist Al-Nour Party. He is also a member of the Constituent Assembly of Egypt.
Younis Makyoun was elected to the People's Assembly of Egypt in the 2011-2012 election, representing Damanhour, Beheira. In February 2012 he proposed a blanket ban on internet pornography, holding it responsible for the increase in divorce and rape statistics.
Makhioun graduated from Alexandria University’s School of Dentistry and Oral Medicine in 1980, and also received a bachelor's in Islamic Sharia from Al-Azhar University in 1999.
After the Egyptian revolution in January 2011 and the fall down of Mubarak's regime, a lot of Islamic groups and currents decide to establish political parties to join the political life in Egypt.
The Salafi Call (Al-Da‘wa Al-Salafiyya) formed its own party which is the Al-Nour Party and Makhioum was one of the founding members of the new party in May 2011.
Dr. Makhioun was a parliament member as representing the Al-Nour Party after the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011–2012 also a member of the constituent assembly which made the draft of the Egyptian current constitution: In March 2012, he became one of the 50 parliamentarians elected to the Constituent Assembly of Egypt, and kept his place in the Constituent Assembly when it was revamped in June 2012. In August 2012 he objected to the Egyptian government accepting an IMF loan, on the grounds that "Borrowing from abroad is usury". He has also clashed with liberals over press freedoms, demanding severe sentencing for libel and slander:
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