Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/12/2020 3:25:11 PM
MPs discuss the future of the local council law and approve a batch of new legislation, writes Gamal Essam El-Din
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/9/2020 12:20:00 PM
Discussion of the newly-drafted local administration law has reached a deadlock raising speculation that elections will be postponed to 2021
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Egypt
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Politics
12/19/2019 10:31:00 PM
The long-awaited 156-article law regulates both the performance and election of local councils
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Egypt
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Politics
12/10/2019 3:21:32 PM
The speaker said the long-awaited law aims to achieve administrative decentralisation and improve public services
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
10/18/2019 2:01:40 PM
Parliament’s Local Administration Committee says a long-awaited law regulating the performance and election of local councils is ready to be discussed, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
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Egypt
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Politics
10/2/2018 7:30:51 PM
Parliament will also discuss laws on traffic regulations, education reform, criminal procedures and local councils
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Egypt
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Politics
8/10/2018 8:46:39 PM
The last time local council elections were held was in 2008. Now a new law regulating them has been delayed for the third year in a row no one is holding their breath they will be held anytime soon
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Egypt
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Politics
7/31/2018 7:17:11 PM
Salah Hassaballah, parliament's spokesperson, said that laws on personal litigation and criminal procedures will also take priority
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Opinion
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9/13/2015 4:46:43 PM
There have been systematic negations of women’s rights, although the state has given various symbolic or substantive gestures of gender justice
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World
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Region
5/17/2014 4:17:54 PM
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Egypt
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Politics
3/5/2012 2:44:30 PM
Polls to elect new local councils – formerly a tool of the Mubarak regime – to take place before new election law in place, says chairman of parliament's local administration committee
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Egypt
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Politics
8/11/2011 1:08:01 PM
Cabinet's law goes further than court ruling by stipulating how dissolved local councils should be replaced until elections are held, or for a maximum of one year
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Egypt
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Politics
7/11/2011 3:56:05 PM
The premises of the local councils in Asyut have been handed over to the governorate’s office
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Egypt
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Politics
7/3/2011 5:38:19 PM
The government of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has reached a consensus on dissolving local councils, dominated by Mubarak's erstwhile ruling NDP
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Egypt
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Politics
7/3/2011 3:55:40 PM
Hundreds of civil servants in Alexandria will continue to protest against corruption in local councils
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Egypt
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Politics
6/28/2011 2:30:46 PM
An administrative court decrees the dissolution of local councils, the much maligned bodies said to be largely in the hands of former ruling party members
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Egypt
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Politics
6/28/2011 11:44:48 AM
The administrative court has ordered the dissolution the local councils in Egypt
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Egypt
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6/27/2011 1:05:35 PM
Many pro-reform movements believe the January 25 Revolution will never be complete without dissolving NDP-dominated local councils
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Opinion
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3/13/2011 3:51:25 PM
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf is expected to dissolve all local councils and set a date for new local elections in the coming few days
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