As in the August Senate elections, the Egyptian electoral government said that the mask would be distributed loosely to the electorate and that polling stations would have been disinfected.
Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly suggested egyptians take part in the vote, which he described as a “democratic atmosphere,” voting himself early in the morning in a suburb of Giza.
Since it came into force in 2014, al-Sisi has presided over a continuing crackdown on dissent that has discouraged public government denunciations. Security forces have arrested thousands of people after small sporadic street protests opposed to corruption last year.
Most Egyptian media help el-Sissi and suppress critics such as traitors or aides to the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist organization officially designated as a terrorist organization.
“The previous parliament allowed the government to do whatever it wanted,” voter Amr Abdel-Wahed said as he waited to vote at an electoral college near Cairo University. He added that other people were “tired” of a parliament that would stick to the government line so closely.
Egyptian officials are pressuring others to participate in large numbers in elections. The electoral government reiterated previous warnings that those boycotting voting may be fined up to 500 Egyptian pounds ($32). Around 63 million voters are eligible to vote in the two-stage election, with the effects announced in early December.
Only 14. 23% of the electorate participated in the August Senate election. The government returned the country’s letter to space after a referendum last year aimed at extending the powers of the presidency and mandate limits.
A total of 568 small space seats are at stake in this month’s surveys, with more than 4,000 applicants competing for 50% of the seats. Government-affiliated agents, well-known and wealthy, have an advantage.
The remaining 50% of seats in the House of Representatives are reserved for more than 1,100 candidates on 4 lists. El-Sissi will nominate 28 seats, or 5%, bringing the total number of seats in space reduced to 596.
The first level of the vote took place on Saturday and Sunday in 14 of Egypt’s 27 provinces, adding Giza and the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Egyptian expats voted earlier this week.
Voting in the country’s other thirteen provinces, adding up to the capital Cairo and the two provinces of the Sinai Peninsula, will take place on 7 and 8 November. Each level of voting will be followed through a circular of elections for the time being.
The final effects will be announced in December and the new camera will conduct its inaugural consultation in a later time.
In the run-up to the election, Cairo and the country’s cities were inundated with banners announcing candidates, basically pro-government businessmen and politicians. In Gizeh, for example, the main pioneers are decidedly pro-government candidates, added businessman Mohammed Abu el. -Enein.
In Alexandria, lawmaker Haitham el-Hariri, who was one of the few opposition figures in the outgoing parliament, suggested his supporters vote. He said he was facing “a fierce battle” against what he called “cash political candidates,” in an obvious reference to businessmen opposing the government that opposed it.
In recent years, the government has intensified its crackdown on dissent, targeting only Islamist political opponents, but also pro-democracy lay activists, hounds and online critics. The tactic left the president and his supporters without official political opposition.
Last year, police arrested eight people, adding former member and social democratic party member Zyad el-Elaimy, after an assembly with opposition political and parliamentary parties on how to run in the 2020 parliamentary elections. Those arrested were accused of spreading fake news and conspiring with a banned organization to dedicate crimes, a reference to the Muslim Brothers.
The El-Sissi government has also pushed for radical reforms and austerity measures to reform the country’s battered economy. The reforms, which included currency flotation and primary subsidy relief, earned the Egyptian government praise from its major foreign allies and foreign monetary institutions. . But economic reform has dramatically raised the costs of everything from electricity to white water, urgent for the deficient and the middle class.
Critics say the 596-seat legislature will be like the previous one, which is little more than a buffer for el-Sissi politics, leaving the general-turned-president with almost out-of-control power.
The pro-government mustaqbal Watan party, or “The Future of the Nation,” has the highest number of individual applicants, with 284 individual applicants in stages.
According to Ahmed Abd Rabou, a guest assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, the end result of the election is to produce a parliament capable of forming its own legislative calendar or holding the government accountable.
“Egypt’s next House of Representatives will remain a puppet in the hands of the government,” he said.
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