Parliament will today conclude its session without passing the organ transplant bill, although the legislative and health committees of both houses have approved it after long controversy. This means the bill will have to be postponed till the next parliamentary session. Also, the personal status bill that the government had promised to pass at the beginning of this session, and the amendments to the draft law on trade unions, were not discussed. Parliament also failed to resolve the problem of the Russian wheat after discussing it for two hours. House Speaker Dr. Fathi Sorour declined requests by 20 members to refer to importers of the bad wheat to the Anti-Graft Authority. He asked to wait for the final report of the Public Prosecutor.
The ministers of trade, industry, health and agriculture said the wheat is fit for human consumption, stressing that the Attorney General ordered to re-export it only because he received conflicting reports on the deal, which Parliament's Agricultural Committee said was corrupt. In a related context, rumors of dissolving Parliament were the main concern of the MPs, to which Dr. Sorour said: "There will be no dissolution of Parliament." Ahmed Ezz, the NDP organization secretary said jokingly: "Only the President can dissolve Parliament. And we will not believe anything unless it was."
