The Revolutionary Youth Union has announced its planned participation in Friday's demonstration, which the union calls “The Friday of Handing Over Power,” but which the National Association for Change calls “The Friday of a Parliament without Former (...)
Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square Friday in preparation for a demonstration they have dubbed "One Demand." Protesters are demanding Egypt's military rulers hand over power to civilians by April 2012 at the latest.
Protesters staged a (...)
The National Association for Change (NAC) on Wednesday launched an initiative to ease the handover of power to a civil authority under the slogan “An Army That Protects Us, Not Governs Us.”
The initiative consists of 11 steps, starting with the (...)
The Egyptian Bloc Coalition, which includes 21 political parties, in a meeting on Saturday, laid down criteria for candidates it intends to field in upcoming parliamentary elections.
The criteria are based on candidates' integrity, popularity and (...)
The Democratic Coalition, which includes more than 40 political parties, has proposed to the Egyptian Bloc, a coalition of 11 parties and four movements, to combine their parties' candidate lists for 30 percent of the parliamentary seats in the (...)
The New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), affiliated with the Housing Ministry, requested its branches provide information about any properties owned by seven leaders of the 6 April Movement.
The leaders are Ahmed Maher, Asma Mahfouz, Mohamed (...)
Members of 17 political parties and movements have marched to the cabinet building to protest the Emergency Law. They held banners warning of the hijacking of the revolution.
The marchers were joined by supporters of Omar Abdel Rahman, who is (...)
Ayman Nour, founder of the New Ghad Party, said he would file a challenge to the new laws on the elections for the People's Assembly and the Shura Council, the two houses of parliament.
“The laws are not appropriate for small parties that did not (...)
Four presidential hopefuls have called for the replacement of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's caretaker government with a more technocratic, crisis management government.
In a joint statement on Thursday, Mohamed ElBaradei, Hamdin Sabbahi, Ayman Nour (...)
Following an invitation from the Revolution Youth Coalition, a number of presidential hopefuls and representatives of the various political movements held a meeting at the Journalists Syndicate on Wednesday with the goal of unifying their (...)
The Justice Party on Thursday called for the postponement of the parliamentary elections slated for September due to the unstable security situation in the country, particularly in light of the clashes in Tahrir Square on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The (...)
Politicians and opposition leaders are divided on their assessment of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's government 100 days after it was formed in March.
Sine said that while it was supposed to be the product of the revolution, the interim government (...)
The various revolutionary coalitions announced on Monday that they would launch a campaign to collect five million signatures to a document requesting to draft a constitution for the country before parliamentary elections, which are currently (...)
Misr al-Haditha (Modern Egypt), a new political party awaiting government approval, has decided to offer free health care service to citizens.
The party, which has not yet been officially sanctioned by the country's Parties Affairs Committee, said (...)
In a letter signed by 56 political parties and movements, the National Association for Change (NAC) has requested the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to assign the State Council to decide whether to write the new constitution before (...)
Two newly formed liberal parties, the Social Democratic Party and the Free Egyptians Party, presented their applications for establishment to the Political Parties Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
The committee, however, declined to receive the (...)
The National Association for Change (NAC) is collecting signatures on a letter requesting Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to delegate authority to the State Council to decide whether the constitution should be written before parliamentary elections.
The (...)
A judicial expert has called upon Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to amend the interim constitution and postpone the parliamentary elections until a new constitution has been drafted.
The interim Constitutional Declaration, (...)
Mohamed EBaradei, a reformer and potential presidential candidate, called for drafting a new constitution before Egypt's parliamentary and presidential elections.
"In the light of chaos and fragmentation, it is time to take the right path: a new (...)
About 2000 citizens participated in a march through the streets of Imbaba on Monday in protest against the sectarian violence that occurred in the neighborhood on Saturday. Twelve were killed and 232 were injured in the clashes.
A number of (...)
The Court of Cassation will convene on 25 May to issue its verdict on the petition submitted to it by Ayman Nour, founder of the Ghad Party, for his retrial.
Nour was sentenced in 2005 to five years in prison, of which he served three, for forging (...)
Egyptian Arab League Permanent Representative Afifi Abdel Wahab on Wednesday said that the Foreign Ministry does not intend to withdraw Mostafa al-Fiqqi's nomination for secretary general of the league. He would be succeeding Amr Moussa in the (...)
Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud on Tuesday approved a request submitted to him by Ayman Nour, founder of the Ghad Party, to reopen investigations in the case that convicted the latter of rigging the party's elections. The conviction resulted (...)
Activists forming new political parties have started their race for party membership numbers, seeking to at least reach the minimum numbers required by law, and if possible outstrip their opponents in terms of size.
According to the new law on the (...)
The National Association for Change (NAC), in a statement on Tuesday, called for the formation of a secular and democratic coalition of all political forces that reject mixing religion with politics.
The statement also denounced the use of religious (...)