Egyptian Parliament

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Egyptian Parliament

The military provisional leadership of Egypt announced on Wednesday that the parliamentary elections will be held on October and that they will have three rounds.
Assistant minister of defense Mamdouh Shahin, member of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces that leads the country, said that the preparations would start in September and the polls would be held within 30 days.
The lower house of the parliament, the People’s Assembly, has 504 seats, while the upper one, Shoura Council, has 390 seats. The vote for both will be held in three rounds of voting, with 15 days between each round.
According to the same source, half of the parliamentary seats will be reserved for workers and farmers, the age limit will be lowered to 25 years of age from 30, and the women seats quota, imposed by the Mubarak regime, will be abolished.
The power will be transferred to the elected government as soon as the elections are concluded. To that effect the military council in power promised to make sure the entire world sees that elections in Egypt were transparent and free. The council urged all sectors of the country to avoid the violation of the freedom and security of the vote.
A Higher Electoral Commission was established by decree, and it will start its work on September 18. The commission will be led by the chief of Cairo Appeal Court.
The role of the army will be to maintain security of the election, while the entire electoral process will be supervised by judges. Any foreign interference with the process will be refused, the spokesman for the military council said.

Egyptian Parliament Building

These provision offer answers to the protesters in Egypt, who demanded the draft of the new Constitution of the country before elections can be held, so that the constitution be kept away from Islamic influence, which is probable if it is voted after the elections, when the Muslim Brotherhood is expected to win an important number of seats in the future parliament.
In order for the Constitution to be drafted, even the idea of postponing elections was advanced, which would have meant that the elections could have been organized at most three months later, according to the constitutional provisions.
Since the ouster of Mubarak’s regime, in February, the people have been demanding the speeding of the trial for those who killed the revolutionaries in January, and the ouster of those in the cabinet who had anything to do with the former regime.
Last week the prime minister reshuffled the cabinet, but the people were not satisfied because the reshuffle was not deep enough, and some of the ministers who do not meet popular approval remained in office.

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