Egypt press reported political parties' preparation for the Egyptian parliamentary elections, details about the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's assassination attempt in Ethiopia, and the former People's Assembly spokesman Fathi Sorour's statements. Youm7: After detaching from the Democratic Alliance, Al-Wafd Party will run for the Egyptian parliamentary elections aiming for 84 percent of the People's Assembly seats, said sources from Al-Wafd. Al-Ahram: Investments of Egyptian governmental Insurance fund bring regular revenues cashed as pensions for the public, said chairman of the insurance fund, Ali Nassar. Nassar said the revenues are worth approximately 8.1 billion EGP (U.S. $1.4 billion) monthly, enough to pay pension for more than two years. He noted part of the monthly collection toll is used to invest the treasury bonds to keep and guarantee the public's money. Al-Akhbar: “Egypt witnessed an era of regular looting without any economic value and it suffered from administrating corruption and not the corrupted administration,” the governor of Sharqia (Delta), Azazi Ali Azazi, said. Al-Masry Al-Youm: 10 members of Gamaa Al-Islamyia (GA) carried out an attempt to assassinate the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubrak in Ethiopia in 1995, said Hussein Ahmad Chmeit, one of the leaders of Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan upon arriving in Egypt. Chmeit said his relation with GA goes back before the assassination attempt, he met several times with Al-Qaeda leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman el-Zawahri, and he was incognito for 10 years in Iran. Chmeit called upon the Egypt's Military Council to intervene and release Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. Al-Shorouq: Hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) joint Al-Wasat Party during the past period. The MB's Freedom and Justice Party signed Egypt's ruling military council's statement, according to the head of Al-Wasat Party, Essam Sulatn. Al-Gomhorreya: Former People's Assembly spokesman Fathi Sorour said from behind bars he entered the People's Assembly for legislation, not for more or less as since he was a law professor. "I found the legislation was fused into politics," Sorour said. He added, 99 percent of legislations of laws are drafted by the government and 1 percent by the Assembly members.
