This year is likely to witness a lot of developments on the political front, and the newly elected parliament began its meetings this week by summoning Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli to answer questions on the programme the government presented in (...)
During parliament's opening procedural sitting on 12 January Speaker Hanafi Gibali urged MPs to keep a close watch on the government and examine all draft laws submitted to the House, writes Gamal Essam El-Din.
“Your supervision of the government's (...)
After last week's opening procedural sessions the newly-elected House of Representatives got down to business this week, summoning Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli to parliament on Monday to address MPs on the implementation of his government's Egypt (...)
Semi-official results show that the pro-government Mostaqbal Watan (the Nation's Future) party has dominated the election of the leading posts of the Egyptian parliament's 25 committees on Thursday.
Mostaqbal Watan swept Egypt's parliamentary (...)
Secretary-general of Egypt's parliament Mahmoud Fawzi announced on Wednesday that he has decided to resign from office.
In a letter sent to parliament speaker Hanafi Gibali on Wednesday morning, Fawzi said "let me inform you that I apologise for not (...)
MPs gathered in a plenary session on Tuesday to elect a speaker and two deputies. Supported by the majority Mostaqbal Watan (Future of the Homeland) Party, Hanafi Ali Gibali, a former chairman of the Supreme Constitutional Court (2018-19), won the (...)
One conclusion to be drawn from the 2020 parliamentary elections in which many businessmen stood is that business is seeking greater representation in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, reports Gamal Essam El-Din.
Political analyst (...)
Reviewing parliament's fifth session (2019-2020), Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal told the media that despite the difficulties caused by the global coronavirus pandemic MPs were able to pass a mix of political, socio-economic, financial, and security laws, (...)
Article 150 of the constitution requires the president to visit the House of Representatives and deliver a policy statement at the opening session. Mahmoud Fawzi, the House's secretary-general, told reporters this week that the president is also (...)
When, after 30 years in power, former president Hosni Mubarak was forced from office on 11 February 2011 nobody foresaw the political upheavals that lay ahead.
Days after Mubarak relinquished power the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) (...)
The House of Representatives reconvened after a short fall recess on Tuesday, writes Gamal Essam El-Din. Secretary-General Mahmoud Fawzi said parliament has held five legislative terms since January 2016.
Tuesday was the final day in the (...)
The National Election Authority (NEA) held a press conference on Monday to announce the final results of the two-stage parliamentary elections held from 21 October to 8 December.
Semi-official results released by the NEA showed that the (...)
In a major boost to non-governmental organisations, investigating judge Ali Mokhtar ruled on 5 December to lift asset freezes and travel bans on the staff of 20 NGOs which were involved in what was called case 173/2011, commonly known as “the case (...)
US Senator Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, announced on 2 December that he decided to reintroduce the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, a 2015 bill that urges the US State Department to use its legal (...)
Voters in 13 governorates will head to the polls on 7 and 8 December to cast their ballots in the final run-off round of parliamentary elections. Expats abroad will be able to vote between 5 and 7 December.
The competition will be limited to (...)
Following a three-hour debate, Egypt's 300-member Senate finally approved on Sunday the internal bylaws that will regulate its proceedings for the next five years.
Speaker of the Senate Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razek told members at the end of the debate (...)
A number of Western countries, as well as the UN, have voiced concern in recent days over the arrest last week of three Egyptian human rights activists working at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). International human rights (...)
The 300-member Senate will meet on Sunday to discuss the 293 articles of internal bylaws that will regulate proceedings in Egypt's second house, Senate Secretary-General Mahmoud Ismail Othman told reporters this week.
According to Othman the bylaws (...)
After four people were killed and 23 injured in a terrorist attack in Vienna on 2 November Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz urged fellow European leaders to form a common front against what he called “political Islam”.
“I expect an end to the (...)
Voters in 13 governorates head to the polls next week in the run-off round for the first stage of parliamentary elections. Egyptians abroad will vote between 21 and 23 November, and those at home between 23 and 24 November. Second stage run-offs (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi was among the first Arab leaders to congratulate Joe Biden on his election as US president. In a statement issued on 7 November Al-Sisi said he looked forward to working with the president-elect to boost strategic (...)
The National Election Authority (NEA) will hold a press conference on 15 November to announce the results of the second stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections, held between 4 and 8 November.
Semi-official figures released by judges supervising the (...)
Mortada Mansour, Egypt's most controversial lawyer and chairman of El-Zamalek sporting club, has lost the seat of his constituency Meit Ghamr in the Nile-delta governorate of Daqahliya, according to a semi-official vote tally.
Mansour, who ran as an (...)
An estimated 31 million voters in 13 governorates will head to the polls next Saturday and Sunday (7-8 November) to cast their ballots in the second stage of parliamentary elections. Egyptian expats in 124 countries began voting on Wednesday and (...)
The National Election Authority is scheduled to hold a press conference on 1 November to announce the results of the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary election, held between 21 and 25 October.
Semi-official figures released by judges supervising (...)
