Maat issues the fourth report to monitor the performance of Parliament

House of Representatives four months without legislation

The return of employment representatives to the arena would weaken their supervisory role

As part of its follow-up to the role of the legislature, and its keenness to enable citizens to follow up on the performance of their elected representatives, Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights issued the fourth report to follow up on the performance of the House of Representatives, which covers the period from April 11 to May 10, 2016

The period covered by the report did not witness the parliament's approval of any of the legislation that an Egyptian citizen hopes to promulgate except for the issuance of the Council's Bylaw Law and the formation of the Council's internal committees. Parliament committees discussed many laws and some legal articles about which controversy was raised in the previous period

The report also dealt with the Parliament discussing some international agreements signed by the President of the Republic for ratification or review. The report also monitored an increase in the number of urgent information and data requests from last month, and the Press Syndicate crisis received the largest number of urgent data requests from the representatives.

The report also monitored the deputies ’continuing to provide public, private and in-kind services to the people of constituencies as a natural result of the absence of localities so far, which led to the absence of some members of Parliament from attending important sessions of Parliament.

Last month witnessed multiple visits by delegations of some European and Arab countries, as well as a delegation of American congressmen to the Egyptian Parliament, and parliamentary delegations from the House of Representatives participated in regional parliamentary activities at the African level, as well as in the Arab-African Union conference.

The Maat report concluded that Parliament is still suffering from the predominance of the service performance of the deputies and the continuing phenomenon of absenteeism from the sessions and the return of the deputies to the application of employment, which leads to the weakness of their monitoring role on the performance of the government.