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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

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INTRoDUCEDBYAI{AKPAuilsPARTY.LISTREPRESENTATIVE
RAFAEL V. MARIANO

AND SOLIDARITY TO THE PEOPLE

A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING SUPPORT
AND DETERMINATION TO
OF BGYPT AI{D APPLAUDING THEIR BRA\IERY
FIGHTTHESo-YEARAUTHoRITARIANRuLEoFHoSNIMUBARAKAND
ESTABLISHAGENUINEDEMocRATIcGoVERNMENT

the authoritarian rule of its

WHEREAS, the people of Egrpt have been under
PresidentHosniMubarakforthepast30years;
rallies have spread across Eg4pt
WIIEREAS, last January 25,2OI1, massive
'Oay oi Rage'demonstration in Cairo that was called to protest
starting with the
poverty, unemployment, police brutality
against the widespread and lingering
rule;
and government cormption under Mubarak's
other key cities like Alexandria
WHEREAS, protests have escalated and reached'
Hundreds have been arrested but
and suez as well as countryside towns.
protesters tir"v *itt ,roi gr"" tJ their demand for Mubarak's ouster is
".ia ""tif
met;
the raged Egrptian people and
wrrEREAS, bloody clashes took place between forces used tear gas, water
police that left *"o,"* dead and injured. Gov.ernT:"t
th" Mubarak government censored
calrnons and batons to disper"" p"ot""t"'"'
and mobile phone service
all forms of media and clamped down internet
providers in the country;
protests forced Mubarak to
and -several
WHEREAS, the intensified political situation members of the
appoint a new Prime Minister and vice President'
formation of a new government but
cabinet also resigned to give way ior the
more Mubarak insists on clinging
Mubarak himself has not stepped down. The protests to
to power, more *J*ot" ngrptians go out of the streets to join the
call for his ouster;
wllEREAs,thishappeninginEryptisaturningpointinthecountry,shistory.
Ji*i;v of popular dissatisfaction
tt" i*g*i
The wave of protests ,epreserrt"d
against Mubarak since L977;

ttt" p"opi""'uprising against the

WHEREAS,highunemplo5rment,risingfoodprices,political.'"p1T:]onand
becam"
poor living conditions ".tJy*t"fot
rule;
United States-supported Mubarak
is the fourth president of the Arab Republic of Egrlpt that
WHEREAS, Mubarak .""nmed p-residency after the
a populatio;;f J; 8O millionli"
has
il;;;uk *." a'fo*"t *itittry man turned
assassination or Arr*r, ur-sra"t.
autocratic leader;
in Erypt was triggered by the recent
*HEREA', the pro-democracy-protests Ben Ali;
in Tuni"# u""i .ppGd ;;; ;-year frie of zitt" Bt-Rbidine
uprising
to the International kague of Peoples',Struggle (ILPS)'
trIIIEREAS, according shifted their focus
,,the mass uprisings sweeping serr"rul Arab countries have

in the uS-Zionist combine on the one

fromTunisiatoEsrpt,acountfy*""t'biggerin-termsoflandsize,population
and strategic valu! and in the us
n ^i o""o": on the other hand
"onni"iu"i*""tiTne
hand and the prr""iirriur, *a teirorism' wa'rs of aggression' occupation
global war ot.terror unleashing state
andtherendluonofUSfoestottretorturechambersofEgrpt";

WHEREAS,accordingtoNewPatrioticAlliance(Bayan)Pgrptisconsideredby been
r"t-"";ttl-ryO.Olt bast' It has often
the United sta;;;-l;*t"ulirr"g
nArab ir?; of the U'S' I\^ubarak has toed the US line on
described as the closest Egrpt is alsoimportant
key issue* til Israeli.";'"n1fr:1t4"-Une'
"*"ti;; -;;"ilJ "I*l"*i" extremists" in the region;
for the us policy of containi"g

l[lllEREAs,itisonlyjusttoexpresssupportandsolidaritytothepeopleof exploitative
for risinf"p *ia striving lo o,r"rttoro* the oppressive and
Erypt
* g"rr.rite democratic government;
Mubarak ,"*i;"Tr;," ""i"uri'"h
Now'THEREFoRE'BEITRESoL\IEDAsITIsHEREBYRESoLVED,that
theHouseofRepresentativesexpresslupporjandsolidaritytotlrepeopleof
deteimination to fight the 3o-year
Erypt ana applr.:ud their Ur"rr"r1i*J anJe"taulish a genuine democratic
authoritarian rule of Hosni MtiJJ
government.

Adopted,