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Our parliament\u2019s activities are mired in legal and constitutional issues that have resulted <\/strong>in the institution losing its credibility<\/strong>, Hassan Al Azhary writes for Al Shorouk<\/a>. Most of the issues have to do with parliament doing away with transparency standards, such as its abrupt decision to stop broadcasting its discussion sessions, which took away constituents\u2019 right to hold their elected representatives accountable for their decisions. Parliament has also been notoriously speedy in passing key pieces of legislation \u2014 including the Emergency Law \u2014 ignoring in the process the possibility that some of these laws are unconstitutional, the columnist says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our parliament\u2019s activities are mired in legal and constitutional issues that have resulted in the institution losing its credibility, Hassan Al Azhary writes for Al Shorouk. Most of the issues have to do with parliament doing away with transparency standards, such as its abrupt decision to stop broadcasting its discussion sessions, which took away constituents\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9411],"tags":[72,9410],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-646766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-deadline","tag-enterpriseam","tag-on-deadline","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"173c7eb6-cbd8-422c-a877-18460e88c2eb","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[646744],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nParliament\u2019s activities are mired in legal and constitutional issues - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/06\/22\/parliaments-activities-are-mired-in-legal-and-constitutional-issues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parliament\u2019s activities are mired in legal and constitutional issues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our parliament\u2019s activities are mired in legal and constitutional issues that have resulted in the institution losing its credibility, Hassan Al Azhary writes for Al Shorouk. 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