Deal to switch sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanfir

The 25-30 opposition bloc in Egypt’s parliament referred to as on Egypt’s President to no longer ratify the authorities’s deal to switch sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanfir to Saudi Arabia, a deal that changed into accepted through Egypt’s parliament on Wednesday.

In an official assertion, the 25-30 bloc said that the president need to “hold what's left of the rule of law” by way of now not ratifying the deal, as Egypt’s High Administrative Court formerly ruled that the deal became null and void.

Egyptian Parliament permitted on Wednesday during its standard session, in a majority vote by way
of raising of hands, the 2016 maritime demarcation deal between Egypt and Saudi Arabia that stipulates the islands’ switch to Saudi Arabia.

The Parliament’s approval got here after a three-day discussion among the participants of Parliament, at some point of which the Legislative Committee first approved the deal, with the Defense Committee following healthy.

The parliamentary bloc brought in its declaration that it's far considering whether or not to resign from parliament in protest against the deal, as many of its supporters have demanded, or to continue preventing within the legislative manner to stop the switch of the islands.

According to the 25/30 bloc, around a hundred MPs out of a complete of 596 voted against the agreement.

The opposition bloc had argued during the debates that severa maps and documents display that the two islands by no means belonged to Saudi Arabia, and that parliament need to not discuss or vote at the deal without a ruling from the Supreme Constitutional Court on criminal jurisdiction disputes.

In January, the High Administrative Court dominated that the deal became null and void. But then in April, the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters observed with a ruling that administrative courts have no jurisdiction over troubles regarding country wide borders.

Following the latest Parliamentary approval, MP Mohamed Fouad, who represents Al-Wafd birthday celebration, declared his resignation “because of the clear derogation of his government as MP throughout the voting sessions,” he stated in a assertion.

The Red Sea maritime demarcation deal was signed between Egypt and Saudi Arabia in 2016, in the course of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s go to to Egypt.