The Culture, Tourism and Media Committee of the People’s Assembly demanded Thursday that the ruling military council fire the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Ismail Serageldin, along with the board of trustees headed by Suzanne...
The Ministry of Justice has objected to bills submitted by MPs Amr Hamzawy, Hatem Azzam and Ziad al-Elaimy, requesting that presidential elections be moved forward in order to shorten the transitional period.
“The provisions of the bills are a...
The recently launched campaign supporting Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), for president aims to drive a wedge between the people and the military, presidential hopeful Mohamed Selim al-Awa has...
Three presidential candidates have criticized the meeting between the ruling military council and political party leaders on Saturday, considering its outcome a “circumvention” of the revolution.
“Agreeing on the Emergency...
Members of 17 political parties and movements have marched to the cabinet building to protest the Emergency Law. They held banners warning of the hijacking of the revolution.
The marchers were joined by supporters of Omar Abdel Rahman, who is...
Egyptian political parties have agreed with the country's ruling military council to make suggestions about the electoral system for parliamentary elections, said Refaat al-Saeed, chairman of the leftist Tagammu Party.
After a meeting on Sunday...
Egypt’s economy is in a bottle neck, said Deputy Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawy on Monday.
“It will be for a year or so, but it will be tough,” he said, pointing to a shortage in financial resources and a state budget deficit....
The recent Muslim Brotherhood statement demanding that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) refrain from interfering in how the constitution is drawn up by producing a list of supra-constitutional principles could mean the end of the...
Presidential candidate Mohamed Selim al-Awa has rejected calls for the Egyptian military to be given a role in protecting the civil state, as is the case in Turkey. Awa made his statements at a symposium at the Heliopolis Club on Monday.
“If...
The National Accord Conference on Thursday presented its recommendations to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), most significant of which is a proposal to abolish the military’s role in protecting the president, as was stipulated...