New Egyptian parliamentary session, Srour, is parliament speaker

The new Parliamentary session was launched in Egypt. The Egyptian parliament has held its first sessions of the new parliamentary term 2000- 2005 and it elected during this session Ahmad Fatehi Srour as its speaker with the majority of 434 votes of the total votes of the parliament estimated at 444 votes.

However, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has asked the new parliament to put the interests of the people and the citizen in the first place in all debated issues and cases.

Earlier President Mubarak met with the parliamentary commission of the democratic national party as a tradition established by the President before the beginning of the new session. The commission agreed at the beginning of the meeting to nominate Ahmad Fatehi Srour as a speaker for the People's Assembly ( Parliament) and to nominate each of Amal Othman and al-Sayed Rashid and two secretaries for the parliament.