The Egyptian parliament (procedural) session to choose the new president could have gone unnoticed in the event of the renewal of its former president, Ali Abdel-Al, or other deputies supported by the National Future Party, the majority party, which enjoys the support of the state apparatus.

Although the session, which was held on Tuesday, witnessed great consensus regarding the new candidate, MP Hanafi Ali Jabali, the re-introduction of the man’s name sparked widespread controversy and controversy in the Egyptian street, on social media platforms, and in opposition newspapers and media sites in particular.

In the new parliament version, Counselor Jabali won the presidency for a period of 5 years, succeeding former President Ali Abdel-Al, after obtaining 508 votes out of a total of 587 votes, compared to 57 votes only for his closest competitors, Major General Muhammad Salah Abu Hamila, and 9 votes for MP Muhammad Medina.

According to press reports, Abdel-Al came out angry, resisting tears after he was abandoned by the Nation's Future Party, after a 5-year march in which he defended with all his might the government's decisions, and did not let them down in one piece of legislation.

Judges held the highest positions and others removed by order # Sisi according to their rulings on the two islands pic.twitter.com/UF3LGmmHVb

- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) January 13, 2021

Who is Jebali?

According to many observers, Jabali's nomination and then his victory were not surprising, as he is the former president of the Constitutional Court, who assumed its presidency in August 2018 and ended in July 2019, and then won the House of Representatives seat on the national list "for Egypt."

But there is more important information that many remember him, which makes his victory in this position not surprising, as he is the author of the final ruling of the Constitutional Court regarding the non-consideration of all the rulings issued by the State Council invalidating the maritime border demarcation agreement between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and as a result the islands of Tiran and Sanafir were given up, which caused anger Widespread among Egyptians.

Then it is also not surprising - according to activists and politicians - that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in July 2019 awarded him the Order of the Republic, First Class, after he retired from his job directly as president of the Constitutional Court, and then presided over him by Parliament, which is the most important position after the presidency.

With Chancellor Hanafi assuming the new position and presiding over the House of Representatives, the former presidents of the Constitutional Court have completed control of the two chambers of Parliament (representatives and sheikhs) after Counselor Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek, the former president of the Supreme Constitutional Court, and head of the Watan Future Party, was preceded by the position of President of the Senate by acclamation.

Hanafi, the president of the new coup parliament, was a member of the constituency that dissolved the 2012 parliament, bypassing its legal jurisdiction and overcoming the jurisdiction of the subject court!


And before the verdict was issued, Kamal Al-Ganzouri said the verdict is in the drawer of my office ... Do not grow old! # Hanafi pic.twitter.com/2jAjb8CD0U

- Salim Azouz (@ selimazouz1) January 12, 2021

Abdel Aal ... unprecedented efforts

However, the laws submitted by Abdel-Al reached a record that would be difficult for any new speaker of parliament to achieve. In a historical precedent in the Egyptian parliaments record, the parliament approved 877 draft laws throughout its session that began on January 9, 2016.

The state of liquidity in the approval of laws reflected the approval of the House of Representatives on 233 draft laws, with a total number of 2,490 articles during the fifth session of the legislative term, which lasted 10 months, during which there was a significant halt in sessions due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The exclusion of Abdel-Al sparked the ridicule of activists on communication sites, who saw it as an important message and lesson for everyone who provides his services to the authority by bypassing the law and the constitution.

Some of them argued that obtaining this great position is not a void, and that there are reasons that justify attributing the position to men.

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Constitutional Court impressed Bnvaatha


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second version noisemakers Parliament! # Egypt # Taran_osnavar_mbarh

- Haytham Abokhalil (@ haythamabokhal1) January 12, 2021

Security choices

In this context, former Egyptian parliamentarian Nizar Mahmoud Ghorab says that "regardless of the names, the regime of the military republic since 1952 has dominated the three ruling powers: judicial, executive and legislative. According to the slogans of the modern civil state, there is neither independence of powers nor separation of powers." .

Ghurab - who is a legal and opposition lawyer - indicated that hegemony begins from the earliest steps of the first steps, where security investigations about the person joining these authorities are among the criteria for the decision to appoint him, and the three state authorities - stipulated in the constitution - have a decree and predetermined role, and they supervise On its implementation by the security departments and regulatory agencies.

In his speech - to Al-Jazeera Net - Gharab pointed out that during the era of the Military Council, Chancellor Hanafi was within the formation of the Constitutional Court, which issued a ruling to dissolve the Parliament of the Revolution when the Military Council wanted to implement the coup plot, and it had to be preceded by undermining the authority of Parliament.

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- Journalist Muhammad al-Sharif (@mohmedalshrif) January 13, 2021

Features of the Hanafi stage

Regarding the features of the new president of the House of Representatives, Mamdouh Al-Munir, director of the International Institute for Political Science and Strategy in Istanbul, expected that it would not carry anything new, saying that "Jabali's performance cannot be different from his predecessor Abdel-Al, as both are driven by the security services, and they are only part of a farce called The Egyptian Parliament. "

Al-Munir added - to Al-Jazeera Net - that Chancellor Hanafi sold part of the homeland when he ruled that all the provisions issued by the State Council invalidate the agreement to cede Egypt from the islands of Tiran and Sanafir in the interest of Saudi Arabia, and then it will not be difficult for him to sell much less than that even himself. .

Al-Mounir added, “Or as Sisi said: (If I could have followers, I would have sold myself)," as he established the time for selling nations and consciences, so Jabali was one of the manifestations of this time, as he put it.