Senate Issues ID's for New Members

The Senate received it's new members on Sunday to extract their membership cards, after the National Elections Authority announced the final results after the run-off last week. The Senate is scheduled to start its first assembly during the first week of October after the President of the Republic issued the decree.

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For his part, Counselor Mahmoud Ismail Othman, Acting Secretary-General of the Senate, stressed that measures have been taken to facilitate the extraction of MPs' cards faster.

Othman added that the deputies' cards were extracted before their presence today in the Council, in order to facilitate the procedures and make them faster. Othman said: "What happened today is the opposite of what was happening earlier than it took more time to extract it."

On the date of calling the new council to convene, he confirmed that this is the decision of the President of the Republic, and as soon as the council convenes, the bureau will be formed.

With regard to the formation of the qualitative committees of the Senate, he said: The law must be drafted first to identify the number, composition and terms of reference of the qualitative committees.

The Secretary General of the Senate was keen to receive the new deputies, get to know them, and take memorial photos with them.

On his part, Counselor Mahmoud Fawzi, Secretary-General of the House of Representatives confirmed, that the next phase will witness cooperation and coordination at the highest level between the General Secretariat of the House of Representatives and the General Secretariat of the Senate.

The Secretary-General of the House of Representatives was keen to be present from early morning to receive the new representatives, to follow up on the progress of procedures and to coordinate with the General Secretariat for the Sheikhs.

While the members of the Senate praised during the reception of the new members of the Senate, the good and organized reception of the new deputies, where the senators were received by Acting Secretary-General of the Senate, Counselor Mahmoud Ismail Othman, Counselor Mahmoud Fawzi, Secretary General of the House of Representatives, and a number of General Secretariat employees For the Senate.

Senator Muhammad Abdel Hafeez  from Minya Governorate, was the first to attend. Representative Mahmoud Bakri also member of the National List attended, and was received by his brother, Representative Mustafa Bakri, Member of Parliament.

After completing the procedures, Representative Tarik Al-Tohamy said that the Senate will have a restrained role in representative life in Egypt, with two chambers of representatives, indicating that we expect an effective role for the Senate also a balanced one.

As for Senator Ahmed Abu Hashima, he said: The election of the Senate is the real beginning of political and parliamentary life, as it comes in an important period and is considered a "thinking mind" in legislation and an assistant to the political leadership and the government.

Abu Hashima added, in statements to the parliamentary editors, on the sidelines of the reception of the new deputies to extract the title of the parliament, that the parliamentary and political life is in continuous progress, expressing his happiness at joining the Senate.