DUSHANBE, May 17, 2016, Asia-Plus – On Tuesday May 16, Tajik Ambassador to Egypt Khusrav Noziri met in Cairo with Egyptian Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal Sayyed Ahmed, according to the Tajik MFA information department.
Tajik diplomat reportedly handed Tajik parliament speaker’s message of congratulations to Ali Abdel Aal.
Expressing gratitude for congratulations from his Tajik counterpart, Mr. Ali Abdel Aal noted that Egypt and Tajikistan were connected by the long-standing historical and cultural ties.
He further added that Egypt was interested in expansion of cooperation with Tajikistan in all spheres and expressed hope that parliaments of the two countries would establish bilateral cooperation through creating Egypt-Tajikistan inter-parliamentary group and organizing visits of parliamentary delegations of the two countries.
Ali Abdel Aal Sayyed Ahmed (born 29 November 1948) is an Egyptian law professor and politician. He has been Speaker of the House of Representatives since 10 January 2016. As law professor he worked at Ain Shams University and specialized in constitutional law. Abdel Aal was one of the constitutional experts who worked on the Egyptian Constitution of 2014.
Located in Cairo, the Parliament of Egypt is currently a unicameral legislature. Under the country”s 1971 constitution, as the legislative branch of the Egyptian state the Parliament enacted laws, approved the general policy of the State, the general plan for economic and social development and the general budget of the State, supervised the work of the government, and had the power to vote to impeach the President of the Republic, or replace the government and its Prime Minister by a vote of no-confidence.
The most recent parliamentary elections were held in two phases, from October 17 to December 2, 2015 and elected a unicameral parliament whose stated purpose is to review laws that were passed in the three years a parliament was not in session. The parliament is made up of 596 seats, with 448 seats elected through the individual candidacy system, 120 elected through winner-take-all party lists (with quotas for youth, women, Christians, and workers) and 28 selected by the president.
