Parliament is witnessing a crisis between the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and other coalitions, blocs and independent candidates over electing heads of parliamentary committees.
Some MPs said they would boycott the elections as they object to the FJP nominations. They accuse the party of attempting to dominate Parliament by unequally distributing nominations among all parliamentary blocs.
The liberal Wafd Party also said it would boycott the elections.
“We won’t take part in this false measure in the name of democracy,” MP Abouel Ezz al-Hariri of the Revolution Continues Coalition told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
“The FJP is trying to use their majority in Parliament to impose a de-facto situation,” said Basem Kamel, Egyptian Social Democratic Party MP.
Independent MP Amr al-Shobky said he would not boycott the elections.
Shobky, however, said he had declined an FJP offer to support him as undersecretary of the foreign affairs committee.
Liberal and secular forces fear that the FJP will dominate parliament in the way the dissolved NDP did under the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak.
The Muslim Brotherhood's party has won 47.18 percent of seats in the People's Assembly, the electoral commission announced on Saturday as it gave the final results from the polls.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
