The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has chosen Hussein Ibrahim, a member of the party’s executive office, to be the majority leader in the newly formed People’s Assembly.
Essam al-Erian, the vice chairman of the party, said in a press conference on Sunday that the FJP executive bureau agreed on Ibrahim for this important post, according to a statement on the FJP’s Facebook page.
The People's Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, is made up of 498 elected MPs and 10 appointed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. It will hold its first session on Monday.
Official tallies show that the Democratic Alliance, of which the FJP is part, garnered 235 seats, or 47.18 percent of the seats in the People’s Assembly.
Ibrahim, who was born in 1959 in Alexandria, said in the press conference that the Democratic Alliance will cooperate with all political parties in order to achieve the goals of the revolution. He said that FJP has a set of important legislation to pass in the parliament.
“The party is heavily burdened with many issues in the transition period. The parliament’s first mission is to draft a new constitution for a modern, democratic Egypt, to establish a legal and legislative authority and to transfer power from the military council to Egypt’s elected president,” said Erian.
He added that FJP will cooperate with the military council and the transitional government until power is transferred to a civilian president.
