Parliament of Egypt

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The Parliament of Egypt is the supreme legislative body of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The parliament is bicameral, with the Senate functioning as the upper house and the House of Representatives as the lower house. The Parliament is located in New Capital, Egypt's capital. Under the country's 2014 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 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. It is the seventh-largest legislative chamber in the...

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