Shehata al-Moqadis, the head of the Garbage Collectors Syndicate, has criticized Justice Minister Mahfouz Saber for objecting to the appointment sons of garbage collectors to positions in the judiciary.
“I see no social justice in this,” he said. “How can he deprive certain parts of the Egyptian society of their rights?”
The minister had said in a television program on Sunday evening that a judge must come from a "financially and morally respected class."
Addressing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Shehata, who has no children, said the Constitution does not discriminate with regard to jobs.
“In any case, I have not heard of a son of a garbage collector wanting to work for the judiciary,” he said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
