Maat Forum for Political and Legislative Reform)
Yesterday, at the headquarters of the Maat Center for Legal and Constitutional Studies, a symposium was held under the title (Parliament's Role in Addressing Unemployment). The symposium was organized (Maat Forum for Political and Legislative Reform) and was attended by:

Dr. Engineer / Abdel Moneim Bakhit, Member of Parliament and Undersecretary of the Manpower Committee

Professor / Alaa El Din Abdel Moneim, Member of Parliament

At the outset, Mr. Ayman Aqil, Director of the Center, expressed his concern about the spread of unemployment and its increase in rates, especially if the members of the People's Assembly themselves could not find work, as there are more than one member registered in the profession (without work).

Then he reviewed the characteristics of the unemployed mass in Egypt, whose numbers we did not specifically reach. There are different numbers and percentages according to the size of the sample and the place of the sample on which the study is based. The mass of the unemployed is characterized as young people who enter work for the first time and whose ages range from 15 to 40 years and the majority of them are between 15 to 30 years old, and most of the unemployment is educated, and there are university, secondary and technical school graduates.

(Aqil) asked, "Where is the parliament's role in addressing unemployment and overseeing the executive authority (the government) in implementing its promises?"

Then, at the beginning, Dr. Eng. Abdel Moneim Bakhit (a national party) and the deputy of the People's Assembly’s Manpower Committee spoke: He stressed that there is no single confirmed study on the extent of unemployment in Egypt and said that the problem is an employment crisis and not an unemployment crisis! We cannot deny that there is unemployment that is constantly increasing and we must put our hands on its causes so that it can be eliminated. I refer the most important causes of unemployment to the lack of training and experience among young people and to education policies that are not related to the labor market and the failure to spread the culture of free work among university youth and the lack of demand for Egyptian labor abroad, stressing also that the common Arab market leads to unemployment, as there is a difference between countries in the cost of manufacturing goods and products, and described the decision to approve the Arab Market Agreement as a political one.

On the role of parliament in dealing with unemployment, he stressed that parliament has a legislative function and a monitoring function, and that they are in the process of forming a monitoring committee to follow up on the government's implementation of its promises to provide 4.5 million job opportunities within six years and establish a thousand factories, and he said if the government provides that, then Egypt will be a labor-receiving country, not an exporter.

He expressed his dissatisfaction and determination to submit a request to the Council regarding Egypt's ranking among countries in the statistics on ease of doing business, as Egypt ranked No. 141 out of 155 countries.

Then Mr. Alaa El-Din Abdel-Moneim spoke: In his speech, he reviewed the types of unemployment and attributed its causes to economic, social, political, demographic, and educational reasons, and the flooding of the Egyptian market with less expensive foreign manufactures, and that there is government stupidity in spending and said that the solution is to reduce the sources of unemployment. He warned of the dangerous repercussions of unemployment on young people, which leads to the spread of crime, violence, terrorism and non-participation in political life.

And he presented several legislative proposals that Parliament must take to reduce unemployment, including encouraging small enterprises and exempting them from taxes according to the number of workers, developing the borrowing system in banks, reducing the interest rate and not extending the working age after the age of sixty to provide the opportunity for young people and to use youth centers in the revival to train young people for professions and give For example, on the legislative and administrative complexity of the employer, confirming that there are twenty-one authorities that pursue the employer in terms of insurance, taxes, neighborhoods ... etc.

This leads to not creating new job opportunities, and he called for reducing the interest due on late amounts for insurances from 40 % to 10% and withdrawing a review of the labor law. Work and eradication of illiteracy, educational policy reform, legislative reform, selling of the public sector and the trend towards privatization.

After Dr. (Bakhit) he does not deny the existence of corruption and that he is in favor of privatization if it is performed in a transparent and fair manner, and that the government’s failure to manage economic projects has been proven. He demanded that the work contract be temporary in the public and private sectors, and indicated that the unemployment rate reached 6.5 million, according to the best report.

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