People's Assembly of Egypt
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House of Representatives مجلس النواب Maglis El Nowwab |
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| Leadership | |
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Deputy Speaker
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Deputy Speaker
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| Structure | |
| Seats | 596 |
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Political groups
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Free Egyptians Party: 65 seats
Nation's Future Party: 53 seats
New Wafd Party: 36 seats
Homeland Defenders Party: 18 seats
Republican People’s Party: 13 seats
Conference Party: 12 seats
Al-Nour Party: 11 seats
Conservative Party: 6 seats
Democratic Peace Party: 5 seats
Egyptian Social Democratic: 4 seats
Egyptian Patriotic Movement: 4 seats
Modern Egypt Party: 4 seats
Reform and Development Party: 3 seats
Freedom Party: 3 seats
My Homeland Egypt Party: 3 seats
National Progressive Unionist: 2 seats
Arab Democratic Nasserist Party: 1 seat
Revolutionary Guards Party: 1 seat
Free Egyptian Building Party: 1 seat
Union Party: 1 seat
Independents: 350 seats
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| Elections | |
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Last election
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2 December 2015 |
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| People's Assembly chamber of the Egyptian Parliament building, Cairo, Egypt | |
| Website | |
| http://www.parliament.gov.eg | |
The House of Representatives (Egyptian Arabic: مجلس النواب Maglis El Nowwab) is the unicameral parliament of Egypt.
The 2014 constitution that was passed in the 2014 constitutional referendum has put into place the following rules: the House that is elected following the ratification of the constitution must have at least 450 members. In addition, prospective members must be Egyptian, must be at least 25 years old and must hold an education certificate. Also, the president can appoint, at the most, five percent of the members in the chamber.
The House sits for a five-year term but can be dissolved earlier by the president. All seats are voted on in each election. The House of Representatives members are elected by absolute majority of legitimate votes cast.
The House may demand the resignation of the cabinet by adopting a motion of censure. For this reason, the Prime Minister of Egypt and his cabinet are necessarily from the dominant party or coalition in the House. When the president and house come from opposing parties (a situation which did arise historically, but not since the 1970s), this would lead to the situation known as cohabitation.
The House of Representatives has various competences stated in Chapter Five of the Constitution. According to article 86 the House of Representatives shall undertake:
In practice, the People's Assembly had very little power prior to the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It was dominated by the National Democratic Party, and there was little substantive opposition to executive decisions.
The House of Representatives Speaker (HR Speaker) presides over the House and is elected from the House membership, along with two deputies during the first session of the 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 House' committees. In case of vacancy in the President's office, the Speaker serves as acting president until the presidential elections are held (Which must be within 60 days). This has happened once, when president Anwar Sadat was assassinated in office, and then People's Assembly Speaker, Sufi Abu Taleb served as acting president. The last PA Speaker was Saad Al Katatny, who briefly presided the Assembly for only 5 months from 23 January 2012 to the dissolution of parliament on 18 June 2012.
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