{"id":208297,"date":"2025-09-26T23:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-parliament-should-open-new-era-of-consultation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:37:50","slug":"egypts-parliament-should-open-new-era-of-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-parliament-should-open-new-era-of-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Parliament Should Open New Era of Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>President Sisi&#8217;s Rejection of Criminal Procedure Code an Opportunity<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">On September 21, 2025, in a rare and unexpected move, Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi used his power under the constitution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2025\/09\/23\/egypt-president-rejects-flawed-criminal-code\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reject<\/a> a deeply flawed draft Criminal Procedure Code. He returned it to Parliament to &#8220;review objections to a number of the draft law articles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">For nearly a decade, consecutive parliaments under President Sisi have acted as a rubber stamp for government policies. Members should use this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509250088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Sisi&#8217;s Rejection of Criminal Procedure Code an Opportunity On September 21, 2025, in a rare and unexpected move, Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi used his power under the constitution to reject a deeply flawed draft Criminal Procedure Code. He returned it to Parliament to &#8220;review objections to a number of the draft law articles.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6115,415,6989,11475,257,5983,2412,254],"class_list":["post-208297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-consultation","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-era","tag-news","tag-open","tag-parliament","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}