Egypt to announce parliamentary elections schedule

Egypt's election commission chief Ayman Abbas

Egypt’s election commission chief Ayman Abbas

CAIRO … News Time

Authorities in Egypt in the last quarter of this year announced the holding of parliamentary elections. Egypt’s election commission chief Ayman Abbas on Sunday told reporters at a news conference in Cairo that the elections will be in 2 phases. In the first phase of the country’s 14 provinces will vote on October 18 and 19 in the second round in 13 provinces including the capital Cairo on November 22 and 23 will be voting. The election was in March, but Egypt’s Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the election law and the elections were postponed. Parliamentary elections in Egypt after a hiatus of 3 years and a half in Parliament existence will be completed in the full restoration of civil rule is likely. Current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, head of the Egyptian army in 2013 as the country’s President Mohammad Mursi’s overthrow and then take over the presidency of the country after the parliamentary elections will be the first. After the 2011 revolution in Egypt coming into being as a result of elections the lower house of Parliament in June 2012 was annulled by a court since the true representative of the people in the country did not exist. The former ruling party in Parliament, the majority of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned after the military coup of 2013, has been declared. Thousands of party leaders and activists are in prison in the death of hundreds of Egyptian courts have sentenced the gang. The dictator President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 after the successful uprising of the Muslim Brotherhood in the elections of all levels was achieved. But Mohammad Mursi military coup and after the ban, most of the Muslim leaders and activists are either in prison or have been staying underground or abroad and not being able to play an active political role. In the absence of Parliament to manage the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi legislation using presidential powers several laws under which they are introduced to basic human rights and civil liberties against critics are calling. Egyptian parliament’s House of Representatives has 568 seats, of which 448 are directly elected. The remaining 120 seats, which are reserved for minorities and young people in the parties, are divided on the basis of representation. Egypt’s new constitution, the president has the power to nominate members of parliament elected members, whose number can be up to 5% of the total.

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