Politics of Egypt

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The People's Assembly (Arabic: Majilis Al-Sha’ab مجلس الشعب) is the lower house of Egypt's bicameral parliament. In spite of its lower status, however, it plays a more important role in drafting legislation and day-to-day legislative duties than the Shura Council, the upper house. The Arabic language (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. ... Chamber of the Estates-General, the Dutch legislature. ... The Shura Council (Arabic: Majilis Al-Shura مجلس الشورى) is the upper house of Egyptian bicameral parliament. ...

Formation of the Assembly

The Constitution stated that the law shall determine the number of the People?s Assembly elected members, provided that it is not less than 350 members. The Assembly is made up of 454 deputies, 444 of whom are directly elected while the remaining 10 are appointed by the President of the Republic. It also stipulated that at least one half of the members should be workers and farmers.
The Assembly sits for a five-year term but can be dissolved earlier by the president. All seats are voted on in each election.
Law No. 206 for 1990 determined that the number of constituencies shall be 222, with two members each, provided that one of whom at least should be a farmer or a worker. The People?s Assembly members are elected by absolute majority of the correct votes cast. A deputy can be: In politics, a member of many national legislatures, particularly those legislative bodies styled Chambers of Deputies. ... Monarchs Wālīs (Governors) of Egypt, 1805-1867 Muḩammad ‘Alī 1805-1848 Ibrāhīm 1848 Muḩammad ‘Alī (restored) 1848-1849 ‘Abbās I 1849-1854 Sa‘īd 1854-1863 Ismā‘īl 1863-1867 Khedives of Egypt, 1867-1914 Ismā‘īl 1867-1879 Tawfīq 1879-1892 ‘Abbās II 1892-1914 Sultans of Egypt, 1914...

The People's Assembly may demand the resignation of the cabinet by voting a motion of censure. For this reason, the Prime Minister and his cabinet are necessarily from the dominant party or coalition in the Assembly. When the president and assembly come from opposing parties (a situation which did arise historically, but not since the 1970s), this would lead to the situation known as cohabitation. While motions of censure are periodically proposed by the opposition following government actions that it deems highly inappropriate, these are purely rhetorical; party discipline ensures that, throughout a parliamentary term, the government is never overthrown by the Assembly. List of Heads of Government of Egypt List of Heads of Government of Southern Region of Egypt Affiliations:- See also:- Egypt Rulers and Heads of State of Egypt Colonial Heads of Egypt Lists of Incumbents Categories: Egypt ... Cohabitation is an arrangement where two unrelated people live together, often as part of a sexual relationship. ...

Powers

The Egyptian People's Assembly Building located in the city of Cairo.

The People's Assembly has various competences stated in Chapter Five of the Constitution. According to article 86 the People's Assembly shall undertake: Image File history File links Present_Egyptian_Peoples_assembly. ... Image File history File links Present_Egyptian_Peoples_assembly. ... Peoples Assembly could refer to various legislative bodies Albania - Peoples Assembly Algeria - National Peoples Assembly Burma - Peoples Assembly Egypt - Peoples Assembly of Egypt North Korea - Supreme Peoples Assembly This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; transliterated: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ...

• Legislation
• Approving agreements and treaties
• Approving the State's plan and budget
• Overseeing the work of the Executive
• Discussing the President of the Republic's statement and the government program
• Amending the Constitution
• Approving the declaration of the states of war and emergency

People's Assembly Speaker

The People's Assembly Speaker (PA Speaker) presides over the People's assembly and is elected from the assembly's membership, along with 2 deputies during the first session of the parliamentary season.
The speaker's role in session is to keep the peace and order to the parliamentary session, take part in discussion provided that he gives up his presidency to one of his deputies and doesn't return to his presidency until the discussion is finished as well as ordering an emergency session for one of the assembly's commitees.
In case of vacancy in the President of Egypt's office, the People's Assembly Speaker serves as acting president until the presidential elections are held within 60 days.
This has happened once, when president Sadat was assasinated in office, and then People's Assembly Speaker, Sufi Abu Taleb served as acting president.
Current PA Speaker and since 1991, is Dr. Ahmed Fathi Soror, a long-time serving parliamentarian and Egyptian politician.
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People's Assembly Organization

PA Speaker

The People's Assembly Speaker (PA Speaker) presides over the People's assembly and is elected from the assembly's membership, along with 2 deputies during the first session of the parliamentary season.

PA Speaker Staff Office

The Staff is responsible for organization of the assembly's and its committees' agendas, the enforcement of the Assembly's orders and is the link between the assembly and different agencies, ministeries and other authorities.
The staff consistes of the PA speaker and his two deputies.

Assembly's General Committee

This committee is formed in the beginning of the Assembly's annual season, headed by the PA speaker. Its membership include the deputies of the PA speaker, representatives of the political parties parliamentary committees, and five parliament members (of whom one is an independant, if the independants count more than ten members).
The PA speaker is responsible for outlining the committee's agenda. The committee is responsible for discussing the general issues put forward by the president, the prime minister or the speaker.

Specialized Committees

The Egyptian People's Assembly Chamber.

These committees include: Image File history File links Peoples_assembly_chamber. ... Image File history File links Peoples_assembly_chamber. ... Peoples Assembly could refer to various legislative bodies Albania - Peoples Assembly Algeria - National Peoples Assembly Burma - Peoples Assembly Egypt - Peoples Assembly of Egypt North Korea - Supreme Peoples Assembly This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share...

• Constitutional Affairs and Legislation committee
• Budget and Planning committee
• Economical Affairs committee
• Foreign Affairs committee
• Arab Affairs committee
• Defense and National Security committee
• Suggestions and Grievances committee
• Religous, Social and Awkaf Affairs committee
• Health and Enviromental Affairs committee
• Transportation committee
• Housing, Public Utilities and Reclamation committee
• Local Administration committee
• Youth committee

"Morals" Committee

This committee is formed in the beginning of the assembly' annual season, headed by one of the PA speaker deputies. The membership includes the heads of the following committees: Constitutional Affairs and Legislation committee, Religous, Social and Awkaf Affairs committee, Suggestions and Grievances committee in addition to five members of the General Committee (of whom at least two are from the opposition parties) and five members from the assembly chosen randomly.
This committee is responsible for looking into the violations committed by assembly members towards the egyptian society's code of behavior towards religion, social standards,...etc.

Ad-Hoc & Combined Committees

The ad-hoc committees are formed by the suggestion of the PA speaker or the request of the government to study, debate on a new bill or law, voting on the ratification of a new law or bill or a special issue of concern. The PA speaker is responsible on choosing members for this committee.
The Combined committees are formed by the request of the PA speaker, the government, members of two or more of the specialized committees, with the aim of studying a particular issue of concern. These combined committees are headed by one of the PA speaker's deputies. The orders of these committees are issued when a majority vote is achieved.

Parliamentary Chapter

The Egyptian People's Assembly is the Egyptian representative of the international parliamentary conventions. This chapter aims at developing of mutual relations with international parliamentary houses. The general assembly of this chapter consistes of the entire membership of the assembly, and headed by the PA speaker. The Executive committee of this chapter of the PA speaker staff office, three members chosen from the assembly membership of whom at least one is a member of the opposition parties.
The assembly meets in its chapter form every January. Emergency sessions are held by the request of the executive committee to look into any of additionally outlined issues of concern.

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Parliamentary elections

Parliamentary Elections in Egypt are carried over three stages every 5 years. The elections take place within the sixty days preceding the termination of its term. Since 1990, the election system is first past the post electoral system vote. Each stage covers a certain number of Egyptian governorates, with each stage baloot results are announced independently and right after the vote count is finished. Egypt is divided into 222 constituencies, each having two people's assembly members. Each one is for each category of seats present in the assembly, one for Farmer/Workers and the other is for "Categories". In order for a candidate to win a parliamentary seat, this candidate should obtain the majority of the casted votes. In case this candidate doesn't obtain the majority of votes, run-off elections take place between the highest four of the candidates, of whom at least two must be of the Farmers/workers category. The First Past the Post electoral system, is a voting system for single-member districts. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...

The November 2000 Parliamentary Elections were generally regarded to have been more transparent and better executed than past elections. This is due to the new law put into force establishing universal judicial monitoring of polling stations. On the other hand, opposition parties continue to lodge credible complaints about electoral manipulation by the government. There are significant restrictions on the political process and freedom of expression for non-governmental organisations, including professional syndicates and organisations promoting respect for human rights. Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

The November 2005 Parliamentary Elections is yet one more test of the current wave of political reform that has started earlier in the year and of which President Mubarak promised more to happen within his alleged final term of presidency. These elections are expected to carry an even higher degree of credibility and transparency than previous elections. With laws allowing public and civil human rights and actvisits to seperatly monitor the election process. Also with the existance of yet more opposition and political pressure groups, like the Muslim Brotherhood, are active in Egypt and make their views public, and they are represented at various levels in the political system. Although there have been a debate concerning the change of the election system to become party-list proportional representation rather than the current Single-Winner system. Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak (Arabic : محمد حسنى سيد مبارك ) (born May 4, 1928) commonly known as Hosni Mubarak (Arabic: حسنى مبارك ) has been the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt for twenty-four years, since 14 October 1981. ... Muslim Brotherhood, Logo The Muslim Brotherhood or Muslim Brothers (Arabic: al-Ikhwan al-muslimoon, full title جماعة الإخوان المسلمين Jamaat al-ikhwan al-muslimin, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, often simply اÙ... Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems used in multiple-winner elections (e. ...

External links

• The Egyptian People's Assembly