The extremists, from the severity of the surveillance, said that it was against them, and the reaction followed. And after that, it is a phase of destructive actions, the good of which is remembered with satisfaction and joy. For it is presented that this council, which was or was not the parliamentary councils of the country, has passed through phases of ascent and descent, periods of destructive actions, and periods of connection and distance, or was left empty of surveillance for a long time, bringing great evil upon the country. And I think that the last election showed the Egyptians that no good is to be expected from insisting on the council by force and opposition, and that this will either delay all progress in the country and waste precious time. And I hope they have learned from past lessons the necessity of removing the ominous extremists and those external political influences, if they want the assembly to truly represent the vast majority of the nation, who are silent and unheard, and who believe in livelihood and hope that this will be achieved at the hands of the deputies who have been chosen to be a support for the government for their own good. The thirty years are but a blink of an eye in the life of the nation, and our country has taken about a thousand years until its parliamentary councils reached what they are today. If the Egyptian nation has obtained the advantages of parliamentary councils with boundless patience and continuous, persistent effort, then that patience and effort will not be in vain, but their reward will be great. However, the election has revealed some extreme flaws and shortcomings, with the old harshness that does not lead to the desired results. May these flaws and shortcomings be removed, and may the Egyptians be given a new opportunity to make the issue of parliamentary councils in the future by proving that they are worthy of the trust placed in them. We now return to another branch of the parliamentary councils in this country, which is the provincial councils, which have yielded many or more than desired results. I say that five agricultural councils were established in 1871, and the government appointed the head of each of them and an engineer as a supervisor. Each district in the province appointed a member chosen from the notables of the country to the liaison councils. The functions of these councils were (1) to consider the necessity of necessary repairs to existing public utilities and to carry out new works, (2) to determine the expenses and personnel necessary for its various agricultural activities, and to pay attention to every project intended to improve agriculture. The Organic Law issued in 1883 abolished these councils and established provincial councils in their place, making the provincial director the head of the council and the chief engineer of the province a member of it, and the rest of the members.