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,” (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
The People's Assembly approved yesterday a bill amending the distribution of electoral constituences due to the creation of two new governorates. The amendment was proposed by Minister of State for Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Mufid Shehab.
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At a press conference Thursday, Minister of State for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Moufid Shehab said the meeting of the UN Human Rights Council--slated for next week in Geneva, Switzerland--would discuss the human rights situation worldwide, not (...)