Farid Zahran

Mohamed Farid Saad Zahran is an Egyptian social democratic politician and thinker. He is the president of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP), in addition to being the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mahrousa Center for Publishing, Press Services and Information.

Career

He ran to be the head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party alongside his deputy Bassem Kamel in April 2016, defeating Nour Farahat and Ziad Bahaa-Eldin.
On 20 September 2023, he announced his candidacy for the 2023 Egyptian presidential election. He came in third place.