Coptic activist Michael Mounir has submitted an application to the Party Affairs Committee to form the Hayat Party.
"It took us only six weeks to meet all the conditions [for recognition],” Mounir said. “This makes us one of the parties that were (...)
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أعلن نادى الغرافة القطرى أنه قد أصبح من حكم المؤكد أن يحل الدولى البرازيلى زى روبرتو الذى سبق له اللعب فى الفريق الملكى مكان مواطنه جونينيو حيث سيعود الأخير للدورى البرازيلى ليكمل مشواره مع نادى فاسكو دى جاما.
ويعد (...)
أتحدث اليكم بصفتي طالب في هذه الكليه و مصري حريص علي مستقبل وطنه واري من الالزام بمحاربه البطاله بداء من الجامعات و الكليات - قبل فوات الاوان علي القهوه - وذلك بتعديل المواد التي يتم دراستها او بتعديل صيغه الشهاده بما يتماشي مع سوق العمل لضمان توافر (...)
Egyptian members parliament, at a meeting of the body's health committee on Monday, rejected the new bylaws that suggest privatizing public hospitals during the afternoon shift starting at 1PM.
They considered the new bylaws a step towards the (...)
Members of parliament on Monday criticized the media and called for banning it from covering investigations of the Alexandria church bombing.
“The Penal Code punishes anyone interfering in investigations,” MP Zakaria Azmy told media representatives (...)
People's Assembly Speaker Fathi Sorour and Shura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sherif have approved an earlier request filed by Justice Minister Mamdouh Marie to deprive14 MPs implicated in state-funded medical treatment violations of their (...)
One day before the end of its current session, parliament on Monday approved in principle new social solidarity legislation despite objections by opposition representatives and a handful of ruling party MPs.
The law will provide financial assistance (...)
Independent MP Gamal Zahran stated Sunday in the People's Assembly that he knew the identities of the high-level Egyptian officials involved in an ongoing corruption scandal in which multinational automaker Daimler-Benz is alleged to have bribed (...)
Parliament's planning and budget committee on Tuesday approved funding of LE7.5 billion for the 2010/11 state budget, of which LE2 billion would be collected from new taxes on steel, cement and imported cigarettes.
The committee also suggested that (...)
Parliament on Tuesday approved a ten-percent increase in annual bonuses for government employees, despite opposition calls for a 20-percent raise in line with soaring commodity prices.
"The raise proves how much President Hosni Mubarak cares about (...)
The People's Assembly approved yesterday a bill amending the distribution of electoral constituences due to the creation of two new governorates. The amendment was proposed by Minister of State for Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Mufid Shehab.
Not (...)
Egypt's parliament has passed a bill allowing infrastructure and public utilities projects to be assigned to the private sector, despite strong objections from 94 independent and opposition MPs who say the bill will open the door for foreign and (...)
The People's Assembly saw a row erupt yesterday as Speaker Fathi Sorour read out a letter sent by Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nour, secretary general of the Wafd Party, which announced the freezing of Wafd representative Mohamed Abdel Aleem Dawoud's (...)
Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali has rejected a proposal by Shura Council members to introduce a progressive income tax.
"Our unified income tax system brings us more than what the old progressive tax system used to yield," said Ghali, at a (...)
Minister of Health Hatem el-Gabaly came under fire from a number of MPs yesterday during a meeting of the People's Assembly health committee to discuss state-funded medication. The dispute ended with the minister agreeing to allow state-paid medical (...)
A parliamentary meeting on Monday saw two heated confrontations: one between the Central Auditing Organization (CAO) and the government over social security funds; the other between opposition and ruling party MPs over the president's right to take (...)
President of the Central Audit Agency (CAA) Gawdat el-Malt criticized MPs who doubted CAA data on the government's performance. He said his agency's data is based on reports by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
"Doubting World Bank (...)
Parliament's Manpower Committee on Thursday discussed the ongoing problem of Amonsito textile company workers that have been staging mass sit-ins before Cairo's parliament building for more than two weeks.
Workers rejected the committee's (...)
During Monday's parliamentary session, MPs blasted the government-backed privatization process, which they blamed for the forced dismissal of thousands of Egyptian workers within recent years.
"We should stop pandering to private investors and (...)
In a closed session Sunday, parliament's legislative committee approved a request by the justice minister to revoke parliamentary immunity from MP Talaat Sadat so the latter can be investigated for allegedly taking bribes in return for granting a (...)
Parliament witnessed a heated session Wednesday when MPs debated a report issued by parliament's human rights committee detailing the committee's recent visit to flood-stricken areas of the country.
Independent MP Saad Aboud accused the government (...)
Nine members of parliament submitted a motion yesterday calling on parliament to revoke confidence from the ministers of education and higher education. The MPs say the ministers are responsible for deteriorating secondary and tertiary education (...)