Egyptian MPs call for sacking Supply Minister over soaring prices

Representative Nafie Abdel-Hadi called, during a plenary session for the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, for the dismissal or resignation of the Supply and Internal Trade Minister Ali al-Moselhi.

During a request for a briefing from the Minister submitted to the parliament speaker, Nafie said that: “The ministry handed over the Egyptian people to greedy merchants, and helped to magnify the role of monopolists and not play its role in controlling prices in the markets. These high prices exceeded the limit and imagination.”

The member of the House of Representatives continued that the ministry is pursuing policies opposite to the policies of the President, who calls for controlling prices and confronting monopoly, but the ministry is going in the opposite direction, “and I demand the dismissal of the Minister of Supply or his resignation.”