Deputy Prime Minister Ali al-Selmy has announced amendments to Articles 9 and 10 of the draft constitutional principles document that pertain to the armed forces, as well as the article related to the constituent committee tasked with writing the (...)
The heads of 11 political parties threatened on Sunday to mobilize 15 million people, take over municipality headquarters, block railway lines and cut power cables in response to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) announcement that it is (...)
Political parties are divided over the merits of Friday's demonstration to be held in protest against the recently renewed emergency law.
While the Tagammu, the Nasserist and the Human Rights and Citizenship parties said they would take part in it, (...)
The Port Said Customs Authority has announced that it destroyed four million cigarettes in August. The cigarettes were seized before being smuggled out of the country.
This was the tenth time that the authority destroyed smuggled cigarettes. Total (...)
Hossam Badrawy, former secretary general of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP), has filed an application to form a new political party called Al-Itihad (meaning The Union).
The prospective party's literature states that it will support (...)
Ahmed al-Fadaly, member of the National Accord Conference, said he met with Sami Annan, vice president of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, to discuss a proposed compromise regarding the new constitution. Some political groups call for (...)
The National Accord Conference's elections committee on Tuesday issued its final recommendations to be submitted to the military council, including support for the drafting of a constitution before parliamentary and presidential elections.
The (...)
The National Accord Conference of Tuesday recommended that members of the dissolved National Democratic Party be stripped of their political rights for five years.
The conference also suggested the same for leaders of the state-owned media who (...)
Former Assiut Judges Club President Refaat al-Sayed said the majority of the people regard the recently proposed constitutional amendments as a mere “patching” procedure that would not introduce real reform.
“We need a whole new constitution,” he (...)
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 (...)
At a meeting of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) on Wednesday, NDP Policy Secretary Gamal Mubarak said the party had been "modernized" to meet new challenges.
Mubarak, who is also the son of President Hosni Mubarak, went on to declare that (...)
The government plans to introduce a new system for state subsidies by which citizens can choose between receiving subsidized commodities or cold cash, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali said on Tuesday.
"Ration card holders will be provided with (...)
The government plans to submit nine new draft laws aimed at controlling market prices for discussion in the upcoming session of parliament, Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid told the Shura Council on Tuesday.
“We cannot control the (...)
Parliamentary Speaker Fathi Sorour said he does not need to participate in any electoral campaigns before the upcoming Egyptian parliamentary elections, as he has been serving his parliamentary constituency for the past 20 years. He said he is (...)
National Council for Youth Chairman Safi Eddin Kharboush said Egypt may have a president from outside the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) within the next twenty years.
Kharboush, who is also a prominent member of the NDP, called on Egyptian (...)
The Egyptian Political Parties Committee has refused a request to establish a new political party under the name "Reform and Development."
The committee said it made its decision after reviewing three weeks ago the agenda of the party founders and (...)
The Health Committee of the Shura Council agreed yesterday to obtain a World Bank loan to help develop the health insurance system in Egypt. Spending on healthcare in Egypt reached LE40 billion, with much of the spending coming from the pockets of (...)
"I don't know why the Interior Ministry is so lenient with protesters," said ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) representative Nash'at el-Qassas at a meeting of parliament's national security and human rights committees on Sunday. "Instead of (...)
The condition of Lake Qaroun has deteriorated rapidly, since inlets and outlets are sealed off and drainage from approximately 482 million square meters of surrounding agricultural land filters into the lake, said Wafaa Amer, chairman of the (...)
A meeting of the People's Assembly economic committee saw a fierce debate on Tuesday over government development plans.
Minister of Economic Development Othman Mohamed Othman was involved in several parliamentary scuffles, including one with former (...)
Although parliament's Wednesday meeting was convened to discuss problems facing employees of the Land Reclamation Company, the Maasara Telephone Equipment Company and the Tanta Flax Company, ministers responsible for these companies' respective (...)
MP Talaat Sadat suffered a heart attack on Thursday. He was taken to Cairo's Cleopatra Hospital, where he is currently receiving treatment by an intensive care unit.
The heart attack followed Sadat's return from Minya, where he had been in court to (...)
The Shura Council approved on Sunday legislation that opposes human trafficking in principle.
"Human trafficking has become the third largest illegal business in terms of profits after arms dealing and narcotics," said council speaker Safwat (...)
Members of the Shura Council (the consultative chamber of parliament) blasted the statesocs-run Social Development Fund (SDF) for granting loans to private companies and banks that do not finance small-sized businesses.
The SDF receives foreign (...)
National Human Rights Council (NHRC) Undersecretary Mona Zulfiqar has called for abolishing the use of capital punishment in Egypt. "Prisons have become more congested than traffic," she said, calling for the wider use of release-on-parole.
At a (...)