Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appointed Coptic Christian Boulos Fahma Iskander as head of the Supreme Constitutional Court (HCC), the main body of state power in the country. On February 9, the 65-year-old official set to work.

This is the first time that a Christian has been appointed to such a high post in Muslim Egypt. Similar cases were only in the first centuries of the Arab conquest of Egypt in the middle of the first millennium AD. - then Christians occupied high positions in the Caliphate. Bulos Fahma Iskander was deputy head of the HQS in 2010, then chairman of the Cairo Court of Cassation, after which he returned to the Supreme Constitutional Court. He comes from a rich and numerous Coptic family, whose representatives at various times held high positions in various structures, including those associated with business and with the Coptic Church.

At the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century, Copts often occupied quite high positions in Egypt, although not as significant as the head of the Constitutional Court. So, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the UN Secretary General in the mid-1990s, headed the Foreign Ministry under Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and the ministers of finance and the environment in the government of Hosni Mubarak were also Copts. In recent years, under President al-Sisi, Copts have been more actively included in power structures. Among them are ministers, governors, members of parliament and ambassadors.

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt is an independent judicial authority that oversees the observance of the constitutionality of laws and regulations. He is authorized to resolve disputes between the judiciary and entities with judicial powers. The term of office of the chairman of the court is four years.

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