Egypt’s National Dialogue resumes political, economic, social discussions on Sunday

CAIRO – 3 June 2023: The Egyptian National Dialogue will resume its sessions for the third week, with a large presence of politicians and experts.

On Sunday, June 4, the sessions will tackle issues promoting civil work, the Freedom of Information Act, and the seats of lawmakers in the parliament’s two houses.

On June 6, the National Dialogue will focus on economic axes like the public investment priorities and state ownership Policy; and agriculture and food security.

Meanwhile, the dialogue members, on June 8, will tackle issues related to health and youth.

The General Coordinator of the National Dialogue Diaa Rashwan said that the sessions would be held at their usual times, starting at 11 am, at the Cairo International Conference Center in Nasr City.

The National Dialogue posted on its Facebook page Monday some figures on the sessions held in May, and that amounted to 24 discussing 14 topics.

Those consisted of 800 sub-topics and were attended by 2,060 participants and eight foreign diplomats. They were also covered by 200 local and foreign press and TV reporters.

The 14 issues were overpopulation, pre-university education, shrinkage of the industrial sector, investment climate, municipal councils bill, political parties, financial custody of minors, national identity, boosting investment in the tourism sector, social protection programs, creating a tourism map, cooperatives' challenges, electoral system, and eliminating all forms of discrimination.  

The Egyptian National Dialogue kicked off early in May to bring together political forces, civil society, youth, unions and other segments of society to discuss key national issues.

It took the dialogue a year of preparations to kick off in order to discuss priority topics on the political, economic and social tracks to reach a common ground among different participants representing the society.