MP reveals parliamentary measures

Egyptian MP Bahaa Abu Shaqa revealed the parliamentary plan to fight against terrorism during the coming period in response to presidential orders to confront terrorism with excessive force. He said that a series of measures will be followed step by step, in a set of measures that will cut the road to terrorism in its early stages, hamper its work and thus limit its impact or success.

He added that Parliamentarians will begin to pass quickly the law on the installation of cameras on shops and in the streets of Egypt, which helps to detect any movements or monitoring of strange activities. He added that they also plan to criminalize the use of automatic aircraft because of their role can contribute to the carrying of explosives or monitoring facilities, and thus cut the way to modern technology that may be used by terrorism.

He spoke about his unhappy experience with the government, when he kept asking to send its thoughts on amending the Code of Criminal Procedure for 4 months, but got no answers, until they managed to implement these amendments which will help to stop terrorism.

He added that criminals use legal loops to postpone their trails for months by not showing to the court house, and soon there will be a proposal to ministries of Justice and Interior to fix this problem by guaranteeing the arrival of the criminals a day before the trial. Other amendments to criminal procedures will be applied like, refusing the trial or changing the judges.

He admitted that most of the legislations are old and need to be upgraded, adding that the law must be applied because most of the citizens don’t believe that laws can protect them, despite the two revolutions they made.

He added that also Health sector need serious amendments, criticizing the hospitals and health centers that make people much sick, and all parliament members need to work to improve health services for the citizens.

He said that Tiran and Sanafir agreement will be discussed in front of the public, and there is a plan to hire a group of international law experts to work on this file.

Amid wide rage because of the legislative and constitutional committee proposal to withdraw judges’ power to hire seniors and gave this power to the president, Abu Shaka said that, they don’t want to get in a conflict with the judges, but deciding what is best for the country is an essential part Parliament’s powers, adding that they are working on a draft of the amendment to be presented in front of the Council of State.