egypt\s new islamistled parliament to hold first session
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Egypt\'s new Islamist-led parliament to hold first session

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Cleaning employee resumes work inside Egyptian parliament on Sunday
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Cleaning employee resumes work inside Egyptian parliament on Sunday Egypt's lower house of parliament on Monday holds its first session since a popular uprising ousted veteran president Hosni Mubarak, with Islamists dominating the assembly for the first time .
One year after the revolution, many Egyptians see the new parliament as the first sign of democratic rule, in sharp contrast to the toothless legislature that existed under Mubarak.
But the exact role of parliament remains unclear, with power remaining in the hands of the military generals who took power when Mubarak resigned last February.
The assembly's first session was to convene at 11:00 AM (0900 GMT).
It will hold three meetings today. The first will begin with three decrees issued by de-facto leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and end with parliamentarians taking their constitutional oaths. The second and third meeting will see the election of a speaker and two deputies, respectively.
Elections for the Assembly began in late November stretching over three stages till mid January. There is still disagreement in the national press about the distribution of seats in the legislative body. The Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, has also failed to win a simple majority.
Egypt's Islamists will control over two thirds of the seats after the country's first open parliamentary elections, which kicked off in November and concluded earlier this month.
The long-banned Muslim Brotherhood won a crushing victory with 47.18 percent in landmark parliamentary elections through its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party.
The ultra-conservative Salafist Al-Nur party came second with 24.29 percent, with the liberal Wafd party coming in a distant third.
The People's Assembly, or lower house, is made up of 498 elected MPs and 10 appointed by the ruling military.
Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), has said the 10 appointed MPs will include five Christians and two women.
Elections for parliament's upper house, the Shura Council, are to begin later this month and conclude in February. Then the two chambers will choose a 100-member panel to draft a new constitution.
The SCAF has vowed to cede power to civilian rule by June when a new president is elected.
 

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