More than 30 days have passed since Parliament approved the NGO law and there is still no word from the president. According to the Constitution, this is the deadline for the president to have a say on any law submitted to him.
The leading liberal party is drowning in internal disputes, as another post-2011 party disintegrates
"For the Love of Egypt … was born in this meeting. Yes, inside the Egyptian General Intelligence Agency. I was there, at the invitation of the presidency."
The new Parliament, which convened for the first time in January, is reviewing several pieces of legislation that could adversely affect the country’s workforce. With only a handful of labor…
Members of Parliament and the Justice Ministry are going head-to-head over Article 98 of the Penal Code, which criminalizes contempt of religion,…
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a decree approving the Parliament’s bylaws, thus putting them into effect, the state-owned Middle East News…
Amid reports the black market exchange rate for US dollars had climbed to a new record of LE9.80 on Sunday, Egyptian MPs called on…
Controversial MP Tawfiq Okasha has been dismissed from his post by a majority vote in parliament on Wednesday afternoon, after the outspoken…
A special parliamentary committee has been tasked with investigating member of parliament Tawfiq Okasha’s meeting with the Israeli ambassador to Egypt in his home…
Controversial parliamentarian and media personality Mostafa Bakry resigned from the state-affiliated Support Egypt coalition on Tuesday after disagreements with the coalition’s administration, the privately…
«Egypt will have a new parliament this month. This council, absent for over three years after the Constitutional Court dissolved the last one, will have two…»
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