Baseera: 37% of Egyptians dissatisfied with performance of parliament

CAIRO - 1 May 2017: Roughly 37 percent of Egyptians are dissatisfied with the performance of Egypt's Parliament in the period from March 2016 to April 2017, according to the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research Baseera.

In January 2016, the approval rate for the performance of the parliament was 25 percent after 15 months since it convened; the current legislature was elected in late 2015.

The According to the poll, the percentage of male approval was higher than females, showing that 24 percent of those below 30 years of age registered their approval in April 2017, while the figure was 41 percent for those over 50.

In June 2012, Egypt’s House of Representatives was dissolved by a court order during the rule of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.