Shura Council (Egypt)

مجلس الشورى
Shura Council

Basic data
Seat:	Cairo
Legislative period :	3 years
First session:	1980
MPs:	270
Current legislative period
Last choice:	2012
Chair:	Speaker: Ahmed Fahmy
105 45 14th 8th 98 105 45 14th 8th 98
Distribution of seats:	FGP 105 Nour 45 Wafd 14 ÄB 8 Freedom 3 Peace 1 Independent 4 Appointed 90
Website
www.shoura.gov.eg ( Memento from February 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

The Shura Council ( Arabic مجلس الشورى Majlis asch-Shura , DMG maǧlis aš-šūrā , ˈmæɡles eʃˈʃuːɾɑ ) was an advisory body and until 2014 the upper house of the former Egyptian parliamentary bicameral system . It was abolished with the new Egyptian constitution of 2014.

The Shura Council was only introduced in 1980 with a constitutional amendment. It consisted of 264 members, 174 of whom were directly elected for six years and 88 were appointed by the President of the State of Egypt . Half of the members were re-determined every three years. The council had legislative power with the Egyptian people's assembly .

The last elections to the Shura Council took place in January and February 2012 . In the first round, 3,543,972 people voted; in the second round 2,606,126 (turnout about 12% about 9%).

After Mohammed Mursi came to power in mid-2012, what was once only an “insignificant advisory chamber” became an Islamist-dominated “emergency parliament”. Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian military on July 3, 2013 ; Interim President Adli Mansur dissolved the Shura Council (as the first official act). New elections were initially announced, but they did not take place before the body was abolished.

The councils

In 2010 the following people were appointed to the Council:

Ibrahim Mehlab Ejlal Abd El-Menam Ahmed Hassan Ahmed Maher Ahmed Mahmud Abd El-Halim Ismail El-Deftar Eva Habel Kerolous Bahaa El-Din Aboshaqa Tharwt Sabet Basile Hassan Suleiman Ragaa El-Arabie

Samia Shenouda Girgis Salwa Shaarawi Gomaa Siham Mohammed Izz El-Dien Sayd Taha Synnott Halim Adel Andraous Nobility qura Alia Al-Mahdi Abdul Rahman Moawad Aziza Ahmed Yousef Olla Omar Abbas

Amr Ezzat Salama Farouk Ismail Ferkhunda Hassan Kamal al-Din Mustafa Bader Louis Shehata Beshara Majed El-Sherbini Mohammad Rajai Atya Salah Montaser Mohamed Abd El-Rahim Nafie Mohamed Abd el Halim Ahmed Mohamed Nagib Abou-Zeid

Mohamed Kamal Mahmoud Shabrawy Mustafa Always Moufed Mahmoud Shehab Manal Hussein Abdel Razek Naji Al-Shihabi Nabil Luka Bibawi Nashat Ossman El-Hilali Huda Mohamed Rashad Wagdi Louis Anwar Sami Abd El-Aziz

Replacement

1. Mustafa Al-Fiji for the late Younan Labib Rizk

minister

The Ministers for the Shura Council:

• 1993-2004: Kamal Mohammed El-Shazli
• 2004–2011: Moufed Mahmoud Shehab

Web links

• Official website of the Shura Council (Arabic)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German name used by the Foreign Office , Fischer Weltalmanach , Deutsche Welle , Zeit , Süddeutsche Zeitung , the daily newspaper , Focus , Reuters , Berliner Zeitung , Sat-1 , N-TV and N24 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ The Egyptian Constitution of 2014 - A Classification ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 17, 2017) 
3. ^ Egyptian Shoura Assembly ( Memento from February 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ FAZ.net July 6, 2013: Coup in Egypt (Author: Markus Bickel)
5. ↑ Coptic Assembly ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 5, 2011