Amr Mohamed Kandil – Egypt Today The Parliament’s legislative committee approved on Wednesday the formation of a subcommittee to write the final draft of the proposed constitutional amendments. Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal will head the subcommittee. The subcommittee’s members will also include Bahaa Abu Shoka, the legislative committee’s …
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Egypt Independent The head of the House of Representatives Industry Committee Mohamed Farag Amer made an urgent request to Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal for the installation of surveillance cameras in streets and critical areas to monitor possible terrorist attacks. After the assassination of a police officer in the Nozha neighbourhood, the government …
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Egypt Today The House of Representatives released a statement Sunday detailing procedures taken regarding the proposed constitutional amendments. The statement said that the final drafting of the amendments might be finalized by mid-April, after which two-thirds of the Parliament members’ votes are required to pass the amendments to a …
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Egypt Independent The Communications Committee of the House of Representatives approved a draft law proposed by the government to protect personal data. Chairman of the Law and Legislation Committee of the Ministry of Communications Mohamad Hegazy said that the legislation aims implementing articles of the constitution regarding the protection of …
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Egypt Independent The House of Representatives approved on Monday a joint report of the Economic Affairs Committee, the Plan and Budget Committee, and the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee for a draft law submitted by the government to regulate the use of cashless means of payment. The text of …
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Egyptianstreets The former chief of Egyptian Armed Forces’ engineering corps, Kamel Al-Wazir has been approved by the Egyptian Parliament to be appointed as the new minister of transportation. “The appointment came hours after former transport minister Hesham Arafat resigned following a tragic Cairo train crash on 27 February, leaving 22 …
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Amr Mohamed Kandil – Egypt Today Soliman Wahdan, deputy Parliament speaker, said that he is working to introduce a draft to put an end to rumours issued by some people and groups to destabilize the Egyptian state. He said that these “terrorist” groups assign a number of research centres …
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Egypt Today President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi approved the issuance of law No. 11 of 2019 of the National Council of People with Disabilities, according to the Egyptian Gazette. In January 2019, the Parliament gave a final approval on a draft law submitted by the government to establish the National …
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Gamal Essam El-Din – Ahram Online In a statement before the 29th conference of the Arab Parliamentary Union on Sunday, Egypt parliament Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal re-affirmed that the administration of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel represents a stark violation of international law. The …
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Nourhan Magdi – Egypt Today Egyptian women will be granted one fourth the number of Parliament seats according to a proposed constitutional amendments to increase women quota in the House. The bill, upon which the public might be soon invited to vote, has collected different opinions on its proposed …
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