Do we really have a parliament?

Ziad Bahaa El Din asks whether we really have a parliament, in a column for Al Shorouk. On legislation, he makes points to the House of Representatives having passed 340 laws issued by presidential decree without serious discussions in addition to not holding any meaningful assessment on the Ismail cabinet’s reform agenda when it was pitched to the House in March 2015. The house did not amend the protest law despite the Constitutional Court’s ruling that it includes unconstitutional articles. On the economic front, he wonders how the House has not yet discussed the IMF loan. The Tiran and Sanafir islands and the Renaissance Dam issues have not been on the House’s political agenda, either.