Parliamentarians’ silly legislative proposals are making Egypt look bad

Parliamentarians’ proposals of pointless legislation are painting a negative image of Egypt, Ezzat El Kamhawy writes in Al Masry Al Youm. El Kamhawy draws a chuckle-worthy parallel between genetic engineering and whatever scientific disaster yielded our elected representatives before warning that such pointless bills only put the country at risk of becoming a banana republic.

If you’ve seen the fistfight in Macedonia’s parliament (to cite but one recent example — watch it here), you know that we don’t have the market cornered on parliamentary lunacy. But still, antics have a different flavor when they’re coming from an Egyptian MP.