It will be difficult to cobble together a majority. The regime is likely to find it a nuisance. Individual deputies will have an incentive to make a lot of noise or to secure benefits for those who elected them, the result is likely to seem obstructionist and venal. It will be both, but that's the way it has been designed.

Nathan Brown

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It is hard to tell how serious such talk is, but at a minimum it delegitimizes the parliament before it has even been elected.

Sisi shows signs of seeing himself above politics, my sense is that he sees himself as a chosen leader and not properly subject to any oversight.