MPs from Jama'a al-Islamiya's Building and Development Party, the Wafd Party, the Karama Party and the Salafi Nour Party submitted a draft law requesting amnesty for all political prisoners since the assassination of Sadat until the resignation of (...)
Abdel Nasser Abdel Wahed, secretary general of the Muslim Association of Greece, said he has information that certain countries are trying to manipulate the votes of the Egyptian expatriates in favor of a certain political party and presidential (...)
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 (...)
Lawyers stepped up their protests on Tuesday, holding a demonstration outside the Lawyers Syndicate and blocking Ramses Street in downtown Cairo.
Meanwhile, more than 2000 lawyers shut down the North Cairo and Badrashein courts and prevented judges (...)
Coptic activist Michael Mounir has submitted an application to the Party Affairs Committee to form the Hayat Party.
"It took us only six weeks to meet all the conditions [for recognition],” Mounir said. “This makes us one of the parties that were (...)
Sami Hegazy, president of the Omma al-Gadid Party, filed two lawsuits against the Democratic Alliance and the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. He is requesting the High Elections Committee to reject their candidacy lists in upcoming (...)
Three presidential candidates have criticized the meeting between the ruling military council and political party leaders on Saturday, considering its outcome a “circumvention” of the revolution.
“Agreeing on the Emergency Law was unjustifiable,” (...)
Participants at a symposium held by the Center for International Cooperation Projects on Wednesday called on the Egyptian government to allow NGOs to accept foreign funding, provided they declare the doners.
“The government must assume that NGOs are (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood group on Tuesday started official procedures for the establishment of its new Freedom and Justice political party.
The group is filling in the application form to submit it to the Party Affairs Committee.
“The application will (...)
Naguib Sawiris, Coptic co-founder of the Free Egyptians Party, said the party was formed to compete with the Muslim Brotherhood in upcoming parliamentary elections.
“The majority of our members are Muslims, by the way,” he said.
He also said the (...)
A number of policy experts, speaking exclusively to Al-Masry Al-Youm, have dismissed the cabinet reshuffle currently underway as a "patchwork," saying the new government cannot be described as a coalition government.
The experts expect that the new (...)
MP Mamdouh Hosny, director of the Industry and Energy Committee and ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) representative for the Ghirbal district in Alexandria, resigned from the party.
A source from within the Federation of Industries also (...)
A Sudanese bid to erect dams on the Nile River is causing tension with Egypt, according to a Wednesday report by Egypt's parliament.
Sudan has adopted a stance similar to other Nile Basin countries in asserting its right to share and redistribute (...)
Members of parliament on Monday criticized the media and called for banning it from covering investigations of the Alexandria church bombing.
“The Penal Code punishes anyone interfering in investigations,” MP Zakaria Azmy told media representatives (...)
The Egyptian government asserted on Saturday that the New Year's Eve Alexandria church bombing, which left 23 dead and injured scores, has not affected the flow of foreign investments in Egypt.
The General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (...)
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 (...)
At an iftar banquet held by the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), Gamal Mubarak, NDP assistant secretary-general and son of President Hosni Mubarak, told representatives of the country's farmers that they could expect "good news" if the ruling (...)
President Hosni Mubarak has called on all eligible Egyptian voters to cast ballots in upcoming parliamentary elections and carefully choose candidates with the best reputations and qualifications.
In a note delivered Wednesday on his behalf by (...)
A medical aid caravan dispatched by the opposition Wafd Party arrived in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning. The convoy includes eight pickup trucks carrying medicine and medical equipment.
Wafd Party President El-Sayed el-Badawi said he was unable (...)
One day before the end of its current session, parliament on Monday approved in principle new social solidarity legislation despite objections by opposition representatives and a handful of ruling party MPs.
The law will provide financial assistance (...)
Ruling National Democratic Party MP Hisham Khalil on Sunday requested the annulment of a usufruct contract granted by the government to French hotel chain Accor and the Societe Generale Investment Banking Group for land in Cairo's central Tahrir (...)
Independent MP Gamal Zahran stated Sunday in the People's Assembly that he knew the identities of the high-level Egyptian officials involved in an ongoing corruption scandal in which multinational automaker Daimler-Benz is alleged to have bribed (...)