Copts expressed their resentment for appointing Jamāl 'As'ad in the parliament, claiming that he will use his political immunity to attack Copts and church.

Kamāl Zāghir Mūsa, coordinator of "Secular Copts" stream, relate the reason of increasing the appointed Copts to 7, might be, to absorb Copts anger over al-Umrānīyyah incident.

He added that the decrease in the number of Copts’ representatives after July revolution goes back to the change in the political climate and sectarian penetration in Egyptian community; and the solution is not in appointing Copts in the parliament but to start changing the overall political climate.