Tue 22 May 2012

Sorour to address the nation shortly

Fri, 28/01/2011 - 23:26
Ahmed Fathy Sorour, House Speaker, as he leaves NDP Cairo Secretariat, after applying for MP candidacy, Cairo, August 24, 2010. NDP secretariats nationwide receive MP candidacy applications for parliamentary elections set on November 28. Meanwhile, NDP has set up an electorate system whereby party members elect would-be MP's - an unprecedented step in Egyptian political life.
Photographed by Hafez Diab

The parliament's speaker will give an important annoucement shortly.

According to the Egyptian Constitution, Fathy Sorour, by virtue of his parliamentary position, is the one entitled to take over the presidency for an interim period in case of a sudden presidential vacancy.

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