Parliamentary sources said that the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafi Nour Party agreed that 15 FJP members of the People's Assembly, five of the party's Shura Council members, seven Nour Party members of the People's (...)
Several prominent figures in the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak have been named as responsible for arranging a gas deal with Israel, according to which Egypt would sell gas to Israel at much-reduced prices.
The defense team of former (...)
Mohammad Ragab, the National Democratic Party's new secretary general and sucessor of Hossam Badrawy, is tasked with reviving and leading deposed President Hosni Mubarak's party forward in the face of overwhelming popular anger and resentment.
In (...)
Egyptian members parliament, at a meeting of the body's health committee on Monday, rejected the new bylaws that suggest privatizing public hospitals during the afternoon shift starting at 1PM.
They considered the new bylaws a step towards the (...)
“Gasoline prices should be raised,” said Magdi Afify, undersecretary of the Shura Council's transportation committee, at a council meeting on Wednesday. “And its subsidies should be spent on education.”
The committee's members also called for (...)
A heated discussion broke out in parliament on Sunday over the allocation of a LE2.7 billion USAID fund obtained by the Ministry of Education for the creation of "Alam SimSim," an Arabic version of Sesame Street. A conflict arose between members of (...)
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 (...)
Jeremy Kumana, Secretary General of Burundi's ruling party, congratulated Safwat al-Sharif, Secretary General of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
“You had a sweeping victory just like we had in the recent elections,” he told (...)
The government plans to introduce a new system for state subsidies by which citizens can choose between receiving subsidized commodities or cold cash, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali said on Tuesday.
"Ration card holders will be provided with (...)
Moqbel Shaker, vice president of the government-run National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), urged the government this week to adopt legislation criminalizing the use of religious slogans in electoral campaigns.
He also recommended that punitive (...)
The government plans to submit nine new draft laws aimed at controlling market prices for discussion in the upcoming session of parliament, Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid told the Shura Council on Tuesday.
“We cannot control the (...)
People's Assembly Speaker Fathi Sorour and Shura Council Speaker Safwat al-Sherif have approved an earlier request filed by Justice Minister Mamdouh Marie to deprive14 MPs implicated in state-funded medical treatment violations of their (...)
The Egyptian Political Parties Committee has refused a request to establish a new political party under the name "Reform and Development."
The committee said it made its decision after reviewing three weeks ago the agenda of the party founders and (...)
Shura Council Speaker Safwat el-Sherif told parliamentary members not to endorse independent presidential candidates, stating that they should reserve their endorsements for candidates affiliated with parties that "possess political, economic and (...)
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 (...)
Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohi Eddin told parliament on Sunday that all debts owed by privatized companies would be paid back to banks as of 1 July. Privatized firms are said to have accrued a total of some LE34 billion worth of debts since (...)
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 (...)
Parliament's planning and budget committee has rejected proposals by a number of MPs to raise the price of subsidized 92 and 95 octane petrol to be sold at cost.
"It isn't the right time for such a move," said committee head and ruling party (...)
President Hosni Mubarak held talks yesterday with Congolese President Joseph Kabila and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, during which they confirmed the necessity of considering each other's interests after five Nile basin countries signed an (...)
Parliamentary Speaker Fathi Sorour has declined to discuss the new law regulating Lawyers Syndicate elections.
In response to a request by parliament's legislative committee yesterday--submitted by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim--to debate the issue, Sorour (...)
Parliament's planning and budget committee on Tuesday approved funding of LE7.5 billion for the 2010/11 state budget, of which LE2 billion would be collected from new taxes on steel, cement and imported cigarettes.
The committee also suggested that (...)
Parliament on Tuesday approved a ten-percent increase in annual bonuses for government employees, despite opposition calls for a 20-percent raise in line with soaring commodity prices.
"The raise proves how much President Hosni Mubarak cares about (...)
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.
Not (...)
Egypt's parliament has passed a bill allowing infrastructure and public utilities projects to be assigned to the private sector, despite strong objections from 94 independent and opposition MPs who say the bill will open the door for foreign and (...)
Members of the Economic Affairs Committee of the People's Assembly criticized the government yesterday for "its failure to solve the meat crisis" in a meeting held yesterday to discuss spiraling meat prices. Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza was (...)