Opposition (24) Member State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League The House of Representatives (Arabic: مجلس النواب, romanized: Maglis El Nowwab) is the lower house of Egypt's bicameral parliament.

For this reason, the Prime Minister of Egypt and his cabinet are necessarily from the dominant party or coalition in the House.

According to article 86 the House of Representatives shall undertake: In practice, the People's Assembly had very little power prior to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

The last PA Speaker was Saad Al Katatny, who briefly presided the Assembly for only 5 months from 23 January 2012 to the dissolution of parliament on 18 June 2012.

The committee is responsible for discussing the general issues put forward by the president, the prime minister or the speaker.

This committee is responsible for looking into the violations committed by House members towards the Egyptian society's code of behavior towards religion, social standards, etc.

Emergency sessions are held by the request of the executive committee to look into any of additionally outlined issues of concern.