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Egyptian MP proposes revoking citizenship of opposition members abroad
Egyptian MP proposes revoking citizenship of opposition members abroad
Margarete Azer said she was making a list of Egyptians who "conspire and incite against Egypt" while out of the country, to discuss revoking their citizenship in parliament's first session.
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Egypt's parliamentary elections saw a low turnout [AFP]
An Egyptian MP has proposed that Egyptian citizenship should be withdrawn from opposition members who "criticise Egypt abroad".
Margarete Azer said she was gathering information on those who "conspire and incite against Egypt", a country to which they "do not deserve to belong".
She intends to bring the matter to the recently elected parliament's first session, according to al-Arabiya.
The names on her list are said to include former IAEA chief Mohammed el-Baradei, and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, as well as Muslim Brotherhood leaders who live abroad after the organisation was declared a "terrorist group".
Egyptians recently voted in the country's first parliamentary elections since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted the Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
Despite massive state-funded advertising and awareness campaigns, as well as encouraging statements by public figures, the elections saw a low turnout.
According to the High Elections Committee, turnout in the second stage of the parliamentary elections, across 13 provinces, including Cairo, was just 29.83 percent.
Though hailed by Sisi as the climax of the military's roadmap to democracy, the elections have been widely criticised as a "farce".
Among the new MPs who won seats in the parliament was controversial TV anchor Tawfiq Okasha, an ardent critic of the 2011 revolution.
Okasha had long been a popular subject of ridicule by supporters of the 2011 revolution, and a symbol of Egyptian right-wing fringe politics and unconditional support for military rule.
Margarete Azer said she was gathering information on those who "conspire and incite against Egypt", a country to which they "do not deserve to belong".
She intends to bring the matter to the recently elected parliament's first session, according to al-Arabiya.
The names on her list are said to include former IAEA chief Mohammed el-Baradei, and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour, as well as Muslim Brotherhood leaders who live abroad after the organisation was declared a "terrorist group".
Egyptians recently voted in the country's first parliamentary elections since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted the Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
Despite massive state-funded advertising and awareness campaigns, as well as encouraging statements by public figures, the elections saw a low turnout.
According to the High Elections Committee, turnout in the second stage of the parliamentary elections, across 13 provinces, including Cairo, was just 29.83 percent.
Though hailed by Sisi as the climax of the military's roadmap to democracy, the elections have been widely criticised as a "farce".
Among the new MPs who won seats in the parliament was controversial TV anchor Tawfiq Okasha, an ardent critic of the 2011 revolution.
Okasha had long been a popular subject of ridicule by supporters of the 2011 revolution, and a symbol of Egyptian right-wing fringe politics and unconditional support for military rule.
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