At the end of March, the Military council issued a new Political Parties law that would allow political parties to be formed by notification alone. A legal committee would have 30 days to respond to this notification or else the party will be automatically approved. During Mubarak’s rule, would-be parties had to apply for approval that rarely came from the state’s Political Parties Committee. The workshop “Political Parties law in Egypt” deals with this new law and discusses its advantages and disadvantages