# Freddy Elbaiady

Freddy Safwat Naguib Elbaiady (Egyptian Arabic: فريدي البياضي) is an elected member of the Egyptian Parliament (House of Representatives). He is also vice president of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. He is a former member of the Shura Council, the Upper House of the Egyptian parliament, appointed in 2012, resigned June 29, 2013.

## Education

Freddy Elbaiady was born January 1, 1971, in Cairo, Egypt to an Egyptian family.
Elbaiady studied medicine at Cairo University School of Medicine, specializing in radiology. He had professional training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in England, and in Hoorn, the Netherlands.
He has been working as a radiology consultant and is a member of the Radiological Society of North America, the British Institute of Radiology, and a fellow of the Egyptian Board of Radiology. Dr. Elbaiady is the founder and CEO of Salam Medical Center

## Political career

Freddy Elbaiady was elected in the December 2020 elections as a member of the Egyptian House of Representatives on the National List for the Egyptian Democratic Social Party. In January 2021, he was selected by the council's presidency to be a member of the General Committee of the House of Representatives He was elected vice president for foreign affairs for the Egyptian Social democratic party in May 2022.

### Political history

In 2011 Elbaiady was nominated by Elwafd political party to be the first name on the electoral list for the parliament elections, but he declined the nomination. Elbaiady said at that time that he didn't want to be committed to any political party.
In January 2011, he actively supported the 2011 Egyptian revolution against Hosni Mubarak's regime. Following a change of government, Elbaiady was appointed by the new deputy prime minister Yehia Elgamal to participate in the National Consensus, a conference that considered principles for a new constitution and monitored the interim period.
In December 2012, Dr. Elbaiady was appointed by Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to the Shura Council, the upper house of the Egyptian parliament. Elbaiady served as an independent parliament member, joining the Human Rights Committee and the Constitutional Committee
Early in his political life, Elbaiady had joined the former National Democratic Party (NDP) in his home city El-Qanatir Elkhaireya. NDP was the most powerful party before the 2011 revolution, but was dissolved after Mubarak's removal. Elbaiady showed great interest in health care and community social services, but declined several nominations by the NDP for parliamentary elections.
While a member of the Shura Council, he raised strong objections to the new parliamentary elections law; and called for the resignations of the minister of the interior and prime minister for the killing and injury of many Egyptian demonstrators in late January 2012
He also attacked the minister of police and the presidential office after the sectarian violence in khousous area and the tragic attack of the Coptic cathedral during the funeral of the killed Christians. he accused the police minister of passively sharing in the attack over the cathedral and showed videos in the parliament to prove his accusation and prove that both the president office and the police minister are liars trying to accuse coptic Christians of initiating violence.
Elbaiady Called under the parliament for early presidential elections and for the first time during president Morsi, he held a red card and wore a slogan saying " A new president is needed", which made the Muslim brotherhood MPs very angry.
Dr. Freddy Elbaiady announced in different settings his support to the Tamarod movement.
On 29–6–2013, Dr. Elbaiady resigned from the Parliament publicly during a large press conference for Tamarod movement. He wrote in the written statement to the Parliament Chair that he resigned because of the repeated failure of the parliament and the president to meet the revolution requirements, and that he decided to join the streets revolution on 30-6 calling the president to step down.
Dr. Elbaiady joined the Egyptian Social Democratic Party during his term in the parliament and continued after his resignation as a member of its supreme committee. The revolution succeeded to oust president Morsi and his regime and a transitional government was appointed, Dr. Elbaiady is playing a role through the community and his party calling for a new democratic Civil state. In 2015,Dr. Elbaiady was elected president of the Egyptian social Democratic Party in south Kalioubia state, and still serving in this capacity till now.

## Egyptian Protestant Church involvement

* In 2008, Freddy Elbaiady was Elected member of the Protestant Churches of Egypt Supreme Council. In 2016, Elbaiady was re-elected for another term.
* He served as president of the Presbyterian churches' junior high youth committee from 2004 to 2012.
* He is a member of the Middle East Council of Churches Peace, Justice and Human rights committee.
* He participated and lectured in several local and international conferences for human rights, Christian Education, and leader training.
* He also lectured in churches and in international conferences in the states and Europe, focusing mainly on the idea of making peace in the community through Medical charity work

## Community activity

Elbaiady is the founder and CEO of the Salam Medical Center (SMC), located in El-Qanatir Elkhaireya. Started in 1996, SMC is a registered not-for-profit organization serving about 40,000 patients each year. Salam Medical Center played a great role in quality health care providence in the local community and became well known in Egypt and in many other countries too as a model of Peace-making through community service Salam Medical Service includes a group of qualified medical staff, as volunteers, Muslims and Christians working together, hand in hand