Amr Moussa, chairman of the Committee of 50, said he would relay the displeasure to the committee from the farmers and workers over the abolishment of their representation in parliament and ask the committee to reconsider until there are strong unions that can preserve their rights.
“Farmers and workers should have access to parliament without the help of a constitutional text or anything else,” Mousa said, adding that the constitution should not be beholden to the past.
“When a law was passed in the 90s to liquidate the public sector, workers did not open their mouths,” he said. “And when another law changed the relationship between landlords and tenants, farmers did not open their mouths.”
“So where was their 50 percent representation when this happened?” he asked. “The definition of a worker in the suspended 2012 Constitution has annulled that percentage.”
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
