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 (...)
Informed sources report a growing rift between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) over the military council's alleged intention to appoint the members of the constituent assembly tasked with drafting the new (...)
Army Chief of Staff Sami Annan affirmed his support for the principle of Egypt as a civil state on Tuesday, saying that the principle must be enshrined in the new constitution as a matter of national security.
“We must insist on this clause,” he (...)
The law regulating electoral districts in Egypt will be issued late August, said Mamdouh Shahin, assistant minister of defense for legal affairs on Wednesday.
Shahin added that the new law regulating parliamentary elections was carefully considered (...)
The suicide bomb attack on Alexandria's Church of St. Mark and St. Peter on New Year's Eve was “a nasty crime” that would not affect the unity of Egyptians in any way, saidpresidential scion Gamal Mubarak, head of the ruling National Democratic (...)
President Mubarak mocked the idea of a shadow parliament in his speech to parliament Sunday. Former MPs who lost in the parliamentary elections recently announced they would form such a body.
“Let them have fun,” Mubarak said.
The 118 former MPs (...)
Ruling party MP Zakaria Azmy has asked Parliamentary Speaker Fathi Sorour to file a lawsuit against Al-Masry Al-Youm for publishing "defamatory" cartoons lambasting Egypt's parliament.
“As I understand it, the cartoons portray parliamentarians as (...)
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP)'s executive committee is scheduled to convene on Wednesday to assess the results of Sunday's parliamentary polls and prepare for runoff elections slated for early next week.
“The party didn't cut deals with (...)
The opposition and independent blocs within Egypt's incoming parliament are set to look considerably different after 15 prominent opposition and independent MPs lost seats in Sunday's elections for the People's Assembly.
Independent/opposition (...)
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) has called on "dissidents" within the party not to run in 28 November parliamentary elections as independents, reminding them of the oaths of loyalty they took to the NDP.
Although only a few party members (...)
“We will reject the use of religious slogans in upcoming parliamentary elections,” Safwat al-Sherif, secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), said at a meeting of the party's High Policies Council on Tuesday.
Al-Sherif (...)
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 ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) does not make secret deals with anyone, and voters have the last word, said NDP Secretary-General Safwat Sherif at an NDP meeting on Tuesday.
Sherif said the NDP engages in fair competition with the other (...)
Candidates using the slogan "Islam is the Solution" in the run-up to next month's parliamentary elections will be disqualified, High Elections Commission (HEC) head Abdel Aziz Omar declared this week.
“The use of this slogan violates the rules laid (...)
The National Democratic Party (NDP) will hold its annual meeting on 9 November, informed sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm. The two-day meeting will announce the party's platform for the parliamentary elections slated for November.
The source said the (...)
Safwat al-Sherif, secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), reiterated on Wednesday his party's agreement with recommendations submitted by various opposition parties for mechanisms aimed at ensuring fair parliamentary (...)
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday ended the deadline for candidacy applications for upcoming parliamentary elections slated for November.
Party leaders won the nominations uncontested, with junior (...)
Egyptian Attorney General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud has sent Fathi Sorour, the speaker of parliament, a report by the Administrative Control Authority documenting excesses in the state-funded medical care program.
Excesses included treatments that are (...)
Parliamentary Speaker Fathi Sorour on Tuesday said that opening the Rafah border crossing indefinitely was in the interest of Israel and against that of Palestinian territorial unity. He went on to stress Egypt's insistence that Israel open its own (...)
Independent member of parliament Gamal Zahran submitted an early day motion to the prime minister and minister of investment about alleged incidences of corruption at the United Bank.
Zahran said that the inspection report by the Central Bank of (...)
The People's Assembly overwhelmingly approved yesterday President Mubarak's request to extend Egypt's state of emergency for another two years, starting from June. The Emergency Law has been amended to include a new article that limits the (...)
Political players across Egypt are anticipating the government's decision to extend the state of emergency which expires on 31 May. Emergency Law has been in force since 1981.
Independent and opposition MPs usually keep their eyes open around this (...)
Entissar Nesim, head of the supreme electoral supervisory committee, said that the ruling party's candidates for upcoming Shura Council elections would be announced at a press conference on Monday.
Safwat el-Sherif, secretary-general of the ruling (...)
Signs have emerged of a new crisis in the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), which has not yet announced the names of its candidates for upcoming elections for the Shura Council (the upper, consultative chamber of parliament)--even though (...)
Independent member of parliament Gamal Zahran said that fellow MPs who staged a vigil on Monday had neglected to submit their list of demands to Parliamentary Speaker Fathi Sorour, even though the list had been signed by some 500 opposition and (...)