The Abu State family and its role in parliamentary life (10)

- He belongs to the "Hawara" tribes in Sohag .. The founder of the family in the modern era was exiled to Sudan for supporting the Arab revolution

- 14 deputies represented the family, the first of them "Hamid Abu State" 1866 AD, the last of which is "Nour Abu State" 2021 AD

- President Mohamed Naguib visited the family in its office in the Balina Center and met its symbols

an introduction

The Abu State family belongs to the Bani Muhammad tribe (Hawara), which is one of the Arab tribes that migrated from the Arabian Peninsula to Egypt with the Islamic conquest and its majority settled in Sohag Governorate in the south of Upper Egypt, and it also has a presence in Sharkia Governorate.

Hamid Bey Muhammad Shamandi Abu State is the true founder of the Abu State family, and he was the director of the Gerga District, as well as the director of the Qena Directorate.

Hamid Bey was a member of the first parliament in the history of Egypt, which is the "Shura Council of Representatives" during the era of Khedive Ismail.

In that, Sheikh Ali Mubarak says in his book “The Tawfiqi Plans”: “Abu Setti rose during the period of Khedive Ismail until he was the director of Jerja and then Qena, and his implants reached about seven thousand acres, and his palm reached about a hundred acres in several countries, and his home resembles the homes of Egypt inKafr Western Bardis, who is told: “The rug”, because of its contents, mosque and office, and they are two of the parties of the poor countries, read the Qur’an and seek knowledge, and they have salaries that he spends on them from his money (1).

Hamid Abu Sett was one of the national figures who supported the Arab revolution and its leader Ahmed Orabi, where the references mentioned what he stated:

“As for the second field, it is the donations made by the notables, which enabled Ahmed Orabi to withstand after receiving the state treasury empty.It was carried by members of the quotes to the warships in Alexandria »(2).

In the field of donating the army, a number of notables such as Hamid Abu Sett, who reached a total of 1,000 arms, including 150 lentils and the rest of them, came in the talgraf that he sent with these quantities: “We and our people in the Jarga district stood ready to jihad for the sakeGod, and we seek sending Wabour to our presence in the supplier (beach) of Al -Balina.

The number of donations made by Hamid Abu State reached 1500 arms of the grain, 4000 gestures, and thirty horsepower.

Hamid Bey Abu State was exiled to Sudan for a period of three years because of his support for the Arab revolution, which was confirmed by the leader of the revolution, Ahmed Orabi, in the first part of his memoirs, and this position caused, as the former Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Ezz El -Din Abu Sett, says in the anger of Khedive and the occupierEnglish on the family for an extended period of time (3).

The family represented during the period from 1866 to 2021 m 13 deputies for the Balina and Bardis district, in addition to one deputy for the Mina Al -Basal district in Alexandria, the deputy Dr. Yahya Zakaria Othman Hamid Abu Sett.Also, post -revolution parliaments (the National Assembly - the People's Assembly - the Shura Council - the House of Representatives).

The Abu State family was one of the first families to be represented in the Shura Council of Representatives, which was established in the early era of Khedive Ismail, where Sheikh Hamid Abu State was elected from the children.

Five other deputies representing the Jarraja district, including Sheikh Muhammad Hammadi mayor in Ladfoura, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Hamadallah mayor of Al -Jabrat, were elected to the DepartmentTababan Nidar - Gerga section.

The family was absent from Parliament for a period of time, but it returned strongly to occupy its seat in the Balina district when Muhammad Amin Abu State elected a member of the Shura Council of Laws in 1910 instead of Muhammad Ali Tammam Habarir Bey, whose membership fell to the end of its duration in the Board of Directors.

Representative Mohamed Amin Abu State Bey was always presenting the problems of the Gerga Directorate in front of the General Assembly and the Shura Council of Laws with the aim of seeking to solve them.

Examples include the proposal I submitted at the association’s session on March 31, 1912, when he suggested that the license to put crane machines to make the irrigation summer in this region. The most needed need for a whiff of the notes of the reform, which is not achieved unless it is included in the care of the first matter with special attention, similar to other Egyptian Bekaa, which had a repair of irrigation and drainage media, a large share, especially since our directorate is not less in its middle account than the taxes multiplied by the comprehensive floods With the grace of irrigation and ease of transportation.

He said: Many of the acres cannot be rented from more than four pounds per year, which pays to the treasury a cut money that is no less than the same as those who are rewarded with twice its value.

He said: This request may need in his lesson and his answer for a time, so I ask our compassionate government to its subjects to be licensed from now by placing lever machines on the coasts, even if temporarily, to benefit a great part of those lands, so that the generalization of summer irrigation is considered in this directorate and the government allows this to achieve thisAl -Amana in all Directorate (4).

When the Legislative Assembly, which came as an alternative to the Shura Council of Laws and the General Assembly, was established from the first of July 1913 to April 23, 1923, Muhammad Amin Bey Abu State was elected a member of this session whose members were (91) members, as it was not heldThe association only the role of one convening from January 22, 1914, to 17 June of the same year, and Sheikh Muhammad Amin Bey Abu State had his contributions to the association until he died on November 3, 1921.

After the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly and the issuance of the 1923 constitution, the House of Representatives elections, which reached the number of its members (214) members.State is a dignitarian, and he was elected from the Bardis district, as MP Muhammad Kamel Abu Sett, who is also notable, was also elected, and he won the general election for the Balina district on January 12, 1924 AD, and thus the family had two deputies in this body.

The family was not represented in the second parliamentary commission of the House of Representatives, which did not exceed the role of a single convening on March 23, 1925, where he represented the Jerja district Sheikh Ahmed Mustafa Ismail Abu Rehab, who represents the famous Abu Rehab family, and won the election on March 12, 1925,He also represented the Bardis Mohamed Abdel Majid Al -Shawadi Bey, who is one of the notables, but this council lasted only one day, and after the opening session the council was dissolved directly due to the election of Saad Zaghloul Pasha as its president, which was not satisfied).

In the third parliamentary body, which began its first session from 10 of June 1926 and its third role ended on June 28, 1928, the number of deputies of the Gerga district was also (14) deputies."Bardis" Ahmed Ali Abu State, while the Balina district represented the family in it Muhammad Kamel Abu State, the lawyer who resigned from the council because of his appointment to a government position in January 1927, and instead was elected Muhammad Fouad Abu State, who is (a lawyer) where he won the supplementary election by nominationOn February 28, 1927.

Representative Mohamed Fouad Abu State, a member of the House of Representatives, had his contributions in the parliament of 1927/1928, in the fifty session held on April 23, 1928 headedThe ministry has the use of canals for free, and in this session the Minister of Works was unable to respond to the question, but rather asked to postpone his response for a period of three weeks (5).

The Minister of Public Works answered in the council session on May 21, 1928 to the question, where he said: The Ministry of Works authorized the Balina Company in 1912 to establish irrigation pumps in Minya, stipulated in the license, the prices that are agreed upon with the people should not exceed the equivalent of the price 100 quintals of reeds, while Berri specializes in this category in one year, and for 200 piasters for the entire cultivation of corn and 30 piasters for each irrigation for other crops (6). This was about the words of the minister who tried to justify the increase in prices, but Representative Mohamed Fouad Abu Sett was on the lookout, as he asked him to obligate the Balina Water Company to give farmers the water needed to grow them at specific prices that it may not exceed as it happened at the present time (7).

In the Fourth Parliamentary Commission, which was held on January 11, 1930, the family continued to be represented in this role, where Ahmed Abu State won the lawyer as a deputy for the "Bardis" department, while Muhammad Fouad Abu State won the Balina district on December 21, 1929And the number of Jerja deputies in this body increased to 16, but a royal order issued to dissolve the council on July 12, 1930.

In the session of the House of Representatives on 7/4/1930, MP Muhammad Fouad Abu State demanded with a number of his colleagues to make the customs drawing on the wheat Ardab thirty piasters, and the flour at 30% of its price or (500 piasters) per ton.

In the Fifth Parliamentary Commission, which was held on the 20th of June 1931 to 28 June 1934, the family did not represent in this council, as Muhammad Abdul Majeed Al -Shawadi Bey, who is from the "Bardis" circle, won, while Hassan Muhammad Ahmed Hussein won the dignitaries of the Balina districtThe number of members of the department declined from 16 members to 10 members after the number of parliament deputies fell from 214 to 150 members.

Return again

In the sixth parliamentary body, which held its first regular role on May 23, 1936, the number of members of the council was 232, and the number of deputies of the Jarja district (16) members, and the Abu State family represented only one deputy, Muhammad Fouad Abu Sett, the lawyer for the Balina district,While Mohamed Abdel Majid Al -Shawadi won the dignitaries of the Bardis district, a decree was issued to dissolve the Council on February 2, 1938.

In the seventh Parliamentary Commission of the House of Representatives, which was held on April 12, 1938 to August 8, 1939, the number of members was (264) members, and the Jerja district was represented by (16) members, and he represented the Abu State family in this body two twoAmong the deputies are Ahmed Ali Abu State Bey, who won the election of a year on 3/31/1938, and the second Muhammad Fouad Abu State, who won the election of a year on 3/31/1938.

Representative Muhammad Fouad Abu Sett demanded at the House of Representatives session on 12/2/1940 that the formation of the Cotton and Carpet Affairs Committee comes to include those who have knowledge of agriculture and to be added to the tasks of this committee that there are other crops such as onions and other tribal faces that must be specializedThe committee is to study so that it is not said that the work of this committee will be minor on cotton issues only (8).

In the session of the House of Representatives on 7/20/1942, Representative Muhammad Fouad Abu Setti objected to the law issued in the name of King Farouk, King of Egypt, to appoint the area that cultivates wheat and barley in 1942-1943, where he said: I see that this law is not valid for application in the areas For the cultivation of corn in the land of menstruation and what is meant is the corn, which is an unknown type in the Lower Egypt and it cannot be agreed after wheat and barley except with three bags of chemical compost, otherwise the land does not come with a crop, and if the agriculture is necessary to adhere to the 6% of wheat and barley it was This means that therefore prevented them from planting corn or making it unproductive, as it will not even bear the expenses of its production. The deputy directed his speech to the Minister of Agriculture, Fouad Sirajuddin Pasha, by saying: If you prefer a convincing cold, I am ready to be convinced, otherwise you must exclude Gerga for the reasons for which Qena was excluded (9).

In the session of 20/1/1943, Representative Mohamed Fouad Abu Sett asked a question to the Minister of Agriculture, in which he asked to know the means taken by the ministry to resist the banging worm in the districts of Gerga and Assiut and asked to exempt the affected lands from the application of the law to grow wheat and barley by 60% and leave freedom for agriculture (10).

Declaration of jihad

In the session of the House of Representatives on 27/2/1946, the deputy commented on the position of Prime Minister Ismail Sidqi Pasha on the collision of the English Lreaiyat with Egyptian demonstrators, where he greeted him and said: He responded with an eloquent response to this reaping to the facts and said: These negotiations that England wishes for us It is at the end of its time, and at another time we threaten not to conduct it, we are not students of neglecting itself, but we ask for it, if we ask for it, because it is a means leading to obtaining our national demands, and if they want it, let it be urgent, quickly, but that England does not want to go sincerely, then we are on Ready to leave negotiations and declare jihad, and take what we see as a valid way to fulfill our demands (11).

Muhammad Kamel Abu State was a member of the House of Representatives in the pre -July 23 revolution, 1952, and he had important views in a draft law to cancel the decree of Law No. 48 of 1944 on promotions, bonuses, appointments, exceptional pensions and other laws (12).

Senate:

The family's representation was not only limited to the House of Representatives, but also represented in the Senate, whose dates continued from 1924 until the parliament in 1952, where the family represented the family, "Ahmed Hamid Abu State Bey", who was elected from the "Balina" circle from February 23In 1924, he came out on May 15, 1930, and then was re -elected on June 3, 1930 with a general election.

In the role of the Senate from 11 of June 1931 to November 30, 1934, the family did not represent in this session in which Sheikh Ismail Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah Fawaz won the Jarja district on April 28, 1936 and Boutros Khalil Boutros Bey.Al -Balina district on 7/5/1936, where the number of members of the council for the Jarja district reached six members.

Family and July Revolution:

After the revolution of July 23, 1952, the family had its role despite the affiliations of the majority of its former deputies to the Wafd Party, and despite its feudal history, this did not prevent the leaders of the revolution from communicating with them, as President Mohamed Naguib visited the Abu State family in their office in Balina, and he was receivedMayor Fayez Abdul Rahim Abu State, MP Labib Abu State, Major General Hazem Abu State, Major General Thabet Abu State and Major General Samir Abu State.

Mayor Sadiq Ahmed Hamid Abu State was elected to membership of the National Assembly in 1957, and his brother Labib Ahmed Hamid Abu State was elected a member of the same council.

In the 1962 Parliament, Mayor Fayez Abdel Rahim Hamid Abu Sett was elected to membership of the National Assembly starting in 1962, and Omar Ezz El -Din Othman Hamid Abu State was elected a member of the People's Assembly in 1971, then a member of the Shura Council.

In the People's Assembly session on November 8, 1975, Omar Abu Sett spoke in his response to the government's statement, saying: I would like to talk about some of the problems that we suffer from in Sohag Governorate, including that there are many workers and peasants who migrated to the Arab countries, which resulted in a deficit Severe in the workforce led to the influence of agricultural production, great production reduced, because of this, the peasants were unable to pay their debts, which resulted in the signing of reservations and the work of extensions for them, which they were driven by the police and prisons centers, for example the provisions of extensions on the villages of 1,200 rulers amounted to This year. In his response to the government's statement, the deputy touched on the government's statement that Sohag did not benefit from manufacturing, and no one factory was created. He said: We promised to establish a sugar factory in the city of Balina since 1965 and did not happen, as well as the rural electrification became a problem, and he struck one example that there is in a center Al -Balina is thirty villages, one hundred and fifty, and lighting has only entered the lighting in two villages since the beginning of the revolution until now.

The deputy talked about the general problems of salaries, transportation and railway trains, where he said: The rail railway trains are not air -conditioned.An important archaeologist is the temple of "Abydos" (13).

When member Mahmoud Ahmed Nafie submitted a draft law to the council to prohibit alcohol and gambling games on all citizens and shortening them for foreigners only in tourist hotels and foreign currencies, member Omar Abu State commented on this at the session of 5/17/1976, saying: “The canceled article knows what it is Wine, and leaves the Minister of the Interior to determine what is considered wine. He said: I do not know the wisdom in that, but if we are deprived of something, we must know what this thing is, and this condition applies to the prohibition of alcohol, so that no person manufactures a intoxicating drink and calls it another name to escape from fall The Interior is as much as the Mufti or the Minister of Industry.

During the discussion of the report of the Transport and Communications Committee on the statement of the Minister of Transport and Communications and Maritime Transport on the general policy of the ministry that he delivered before the council, member Omar Ezz El -Din Abu State spoke, saying: The Minister’s view of the great disparity in the percentage of roads paved between the governorates of Upper Egypt and other governorates, for example the percentage of roadsIn Sohag Governorate, it does not exceed 6%, which is the lowest percentage among the governorates with the poor condition of these roads.

The deputy criticized the communications that take place through "Tren", and he said it is not reasonable for the citizen to be forced to pay the value of a "TREC" of two villages between two villages.In return, he has the right to contact thousands of lines and subscribers to the countryside or Upper Egypt lines, pays the same subscription in exchange for communication with twenty lines or sometimes less, and the deputy asked the Minister of Communications to consider the calls that take place within the one administrative center local (14).

In the People's Assembly session on December 31, 1995, MP Omar Abu State spoke about university education in Sohag, where he said: “If we say that the constitution says: Citizens are both in front of the law and in front of all parties, then Sohag University must be like Assiut University, Zagazig University and Mansoura UniversityTanta University and Alexandria University, all governorates today have universities.The deputy asked: Why did the University of Sohag not create, and the South Valley University was established?We are first in the name of Sohag »(15).

Among the important positions of MP Omar Abu State at the People's Assembly, Chairman of the Defense and National Security Committee, commenting on a request for briefing on the escape of one of the ships reserved in the Suez Canal after the issuance of rulings against it from the competent Port Said court, where he said in the 14/5/2000 session: The problem is not funds for the stateOn the ship because it can happen in any other way, but the problem is the existing imperfection that can lead to a threat to national security, a boat that travels from Suez to Port Said and comes out, and a boat comes out of Port Said and escapes, and locomotives that withdraw it from the place to be forced without paying attention to itOne (16).

Representative Omar Abu Sett was a defender of the farmers and an adoption of their problems. In the session of 5/15/2000, he commented on the request for the discussion submitted by Representative Abdul Rahim Al -Ghoul and twenty other members on the problems of agriculture regarding the pricing of crops and production requirements from compost and providing the necessary irrigation water for the crops, especially the sugar cane crop, sayingWe say today to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Agriculture to review the real cost prices and judge justice between the farmer and the worker, because we do not want a worker who is displaced or factories that are closed in Egypt, but on the contrary, we want them to expand as the deputy demanded to discuss the debt of the peasants that all of them (17).

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Major General Hazem Sabri Othman Abu State was also elected as a member of the People's Assembly in 1979, and he had his positions in Parliament, which was recorded by the officer.

In his response to the Prime Minister's statement, member Hazem Abu State spoke, saying: There is no doubt that we are now surrounded by factors that need us to take care and give full care to protect our internal forehead from tampering, sabotage and conspiracies that are hatched to stop the march of this people towards the progress that we hope for our people in compensation forThe long years of suffering from wars and conspiracies against it.

The deputy demanded the support of the Ministry of the Interior, and said: I see that the police authority should give more than it is allocated to achieve security, safety and reassurance to her men who work day and night.

Representative Hazem Abu State asked to reconsider the budget of the Ministry of Interior, and said: This is up to the Prime Minister (18).

In the People's Assembly session on March 17, 1980, there was a proposal submitted by the member Dr. Hussein Al -Sarafi and twenty others to deprive those who own ten acres and more and some other groups of the exchange of supplies, where Representative Hazem Abu Sett commented: I do not disagree with the masterThe minister in determining a ration card for each citizen commensurate with his income.

In the session of March 14, 1981, Hazem Abu State, Undersecretary of the Defense and National Security Committee, presented two questions to the government, as follows:

- What are the circumstances and circumstances of the crash of the helicopter that were carrying the martyr Field Marshal Ahmed Badawi and his honorable martyrs?!

- Did it show from the investigation and examination that conducted the causes of the accident that there was negligence that led to the accident or not?What is the procedure that the armed forces will take in the future to avoid such an incident, which is a bereavement for Egypt and people.

The member said: What called me to apply for my question is this great incident, which led to the bell of Egypt in the loss of a group of the most honorable and dearest of its children, especially the Commander in Chief of the Army of Egypt and his honorable martyrs. He said: What I called for the question is what the national media and newspapers have seen by the media and statements about the circumstances of the accident and its circumstances. Demanding my question to the committee, with an invitation to the Minister of Defense and Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces to attend this meeting (19).

In the People's Assembly session on November 28, 1982, member Hazem Abu State spoke about the Taba case and said: I see that the committee of response to the government’s statement has passed the honorable passage of the Taba problem, so Israel's occupation of a part - even if it is easy - from Sinai is not easyAlso, the committee did not show its opinion as well as the government in relation to the state of not succeeding in its negotiations, whether success or arbitration, because Israel still insists on taking practical measures that are no less than the establishment of a settlement from its settlements that spread in parts of the Arab world that it occupied after a general war.1967.

In the council session on February 8, 1988, member Hazem Abu Sett, his speech, said to the Minister of Electricity, saying: The Minister spoke that there are stations that work at full capacity to the extent that they have no energy to work more than this, so what we have and we have in Sohag two transformers stationAl -Balina, and the Dar Al -Salam transformer station, are ready, two buildings, and two equipment for work, but they do not work sufficiently, and five years have passed since their opening, but they have not worked with their strength until now, which causes electricity insufficiency in southern Sohag, and therefore I ask a promise from the Minister of Electricity for the date of completion of this line..

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Dr. Yahya Zakaria Othman Hamid Abu State was also elected a member of the People's Assembly for the Mina Al -Basal district in 1995.

Among his positions recorded by the officer is that in a session on Saturday, January 27, 1996, the deputy commented on the statement of Dr. Kamal Al -Janzouri, the Prime Minister at this time, as he determined his observations as follows:

First- the government's statement was not precisely specified if its resources allow these tremendous hopes that need enormous resources as well, and I hope that the government has prepared its account accurately until the day of reckoning is a easy day.

Second- The government's statement did not specify specific executive plans for the problem of unemployment, but rather the words of a transmitter saying: The government encourages investment, investment will create job opportunities and this solves the problem of unemployment, this is true, but the investment process, building factories and starting projects take two or three years, and today these graduates have beenTen years of university students and intermediate cadres: We tell them to wait for economic reform, and my question: Will they wait again?

The deputy said: The state today takes the free economy, and the most important of its characteristics is that people who do not find work takes an unemployment subsidy, and this is present in all countries of the world in order for a person to find his food and his hand does not extend.Invested money in any investment project in favor of a fund that we call "the unemployment fund".

Third- The government is heading to privatization, and we support it in all of this, but I defect the government to slow down, and I wish the government hurry somewhat in this until we stop falsifying public money that is in the losing companies and its number is large.

Fourth- The administrative and bureaucratic apparatus is still a source of inconvenience and hinders a lot of services and plans, and I wish the government takes the recommendations of the committee in the statement of the response.

Fifth- Money Employment Companies, it is unreasonable for people to wait today and ten years ago they cannot obtain their money, and this is criminality, and there are people who died and people of them are tired and people are sick.

Sixth- I ask the government to reconsider the current tax system, because I think it is still a system that tends to the collection system, not a tax system and negatively affects investment (20).

When the report of the Plan and Budget Committee was discussed on a draft law to amend some provisions of the General Tax Law on Sales issued by Law No. 11 of 1991, it was from the opinion of the deputy, Dr. Yahya Abu Sett, is the abolition of the penalty of imprisonment from this article, with a multiplication of the fine three also against those who evade it.21).

When the discussion of the journalism regulation law prepared by a joint committee was discussed by the Culture, Information and Tourism Committee and the Office of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee, MP Dr. Yahya Abu Setti defended the freedom of the press and rejected the penalty of imprisonment, where he said: When we cancel confinement, the goal is freedom of opinion and freedom of thought in the first placeAnd for this, we give this freedom a specific advantage in this law (22).

In spite of this, the deputy used to see that freedom of the press is not absolute, but rather the journalist should not be subjected to the private life of citizens, because private life is a fortress that is not permissible to storm it and the public person is not "stained" so that he is exposed to the painting, then there is no penalty for those who did thisThere must be the responsibility of the word, which says a word that bears its responsibility (23).

Deputy Dr. Yahya Abu Sett was always seeking solutions to the crisis problems through his positions in which he was expressing his opinion within the People's Assembly. The Deputy Minister of Finance demanded in the fifth session of the Council on November 23, 1997 to seek to solve tax problems with understanding and apply the spirit of lawWith the evaders or the financiers, because the litigation of litigation will be lost on the state and the people are not all bad (24).

In the sixteenth session, 12/21/1997 called for the necessity of exempting all state employees from the tax on public income and shortening this tax on businessmen, industry and trade, and he said: It is not correct to take from the employee and leave the owners of millions (25).

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In the House of Representatives 2021, Major General Noureddine Asaad Sadiq Ahmed Hamid Abu State was elected a member of the House of Representatives for the (Future of the Watan) party and its fame (Nour Abu State), where he won his electoral district with a sweep, to confirm again that the history of the family is still continuing, and that its presence in ParliamentFor 155 years, the political and social role of this large family confirms and reflects the confidence of the people of the circle in it.

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Margins:

(1) Sheikh Ali Mubarak: Tawfiqi Plans - Part Ninth, p. 512.

(2) Abd al-Rahman al-Rafii: The Arab Revolution, pp. 409-410.

(3) A special interview with Dr. Ezz El -Din Abu S.