Within the framework of the State Information Service (SIS) plan for boosting the political participation in the coming parliamentary elections, which is the third and last step of the future roadmap, SIS Chairman Ambassador Salah Abdel Sadeq said that internal media centers in all Egypt’s governorates held 122 seminars for …
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Concerns over district representation in coming elections
Final parliamentary law draft should be presented to cabinet by end of week
Cabinet to rule on electoral districts draft
Some parties believe districts made to garner “votes for the government” in upcoming parliamentary elections
Egypt elections unlikely to deliver parliament that can check president's powers
CAIRO – Egypt is gearing up for parliamentary elections, the second since the 2011 uprising. But with the once-triumphant Muslim Brotherhood now banned from public life and a new military-backed government suppressing public expression, analysts and activists say the next legislature is likely to be a rubber-stamp body that further …
Sinai attacks will not delay Egyptian parliamentary poll: Minister
Parliamentary elections will not be affected by militant attacks that killed over 30 soldiers in North Sinai over the weekend, a minister says
Egypt’s new electoral districts law will be subject to national dialogue: Minister
Although the electoral districts law is the last step before parliamentary elections can take place, it still needs to reach ‘consensus among political forces’
When will Egypt have a parliament?
“If anyone tells you they know for fact when the parliamentarian elections will be held then they are lying because no final date is set yet – there are certainly tentative options but the range is rather wide; extending from later this year to next summer,” said a highly informed …
Military officer takes charge as first secretary-general of Egypt's parliament
Egypt’s head of House of Representative affairs, has appointed parliament’s first secretary-general from the military
Mehleb forms parliamentary election districts committee
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb issued Tuesday a decision to form a committee to draft a law allocating election districts in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Parliamentary constituency law to be issued in 3 weeks: Egypt's PM
Law will redraw constituencies according to area and population, as plans underway for parliamentary polls by year’s end