Qatar- Egypt's Parliament Opens Sunday after 4 Year Hiatus

1/10/2016 5:54:39 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Cairo January 10 (QNA) - Egypt's new parliament convened its opening session Sunday ending a four-year hiatus.
This is Egypt's largest parliament to date.
The MPS are divided into 448 independents 120 party-based deputies and 28 presidential appointees according to (Ahram Online).
Lawyer Bahaaa Abu-Shoka 77 is the oldest parliamentarian thus according to parliament's law will be the speaker of the first session until the rest of the MPs elect a speaker and two deputies.
Abu-Shoka was appointed to the House of Representatives by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi as one of the 28 presidential appointees.
Three members apologised for not being able to attend the first parliamentary session. One of the members not present is buisnessman Farag Amer.
The meeting is the first of its kind after the country's two previous parliaments were dissolved the first in February 2011 and the second in June 2012 and after former president Mohamed Morsi was ousted from office in July 2013.
The meeting also represents the completion of the third stage of a political roadmap adopted since the removal of Morsi.
The other stages included the passing of a new constitution in January 2014 and the election of a president former army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in June 2014. (QNA)

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