Extensive tours by missions of international organizations charged with following up on the House of Representatives elections

Missions of international organizations and bodies, and delegations representing a number of diplomatic missions located inside Egypt and authorized by the National Elections Authority, conducted extensive tours that included many electoral districts in the governorates of the second phase of the House of Representatives elections. To determine the progress of the electoral process and follow its course.

 

The National Elections Authority had also agreed to grant permits to follow up on the two phases of the parliamentary elections to 60 local civil society organizations who fall within the jurisdiction of their work, to follow up on electoral entitlements, in addition to approvals of requests submitted by regional and international organizations to send specialized missions to follow up the electoral process.

 

The tours it conducted included Today, delegations and missions of international organizations visited electoral centers in a number of governorates of the second phase of the elections, as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation mission visited the sub-polling committees in the Sahel and Hadayek al-Qubba regions in Cairo.

 

The mission of the Central Election Commission in Russia visited the electoral centers in the Qasr al-Nil and Old Cairo regions, while the Arab League mission made extensive tours of the electoral centers in the Cairo and Ismailia governorates. And Port Said.

 

The electoral process is being carried out under the follow-up of many missions of international organizations, most notably: the League of Arab States, the African Union, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab Organization for Electoral Managements, and the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

 

On the other hand, the Central Operations Room of the National Elections Authority, headed by Counselor Ahmed Bandari, Director of the Executive Body of the Authority, continues its work by communicating with Heads of the follow-up committees in the 13 governorates for the second phase of the elections, as well as heads of the general committees and sub-polling committees; To follow up on the course of the electoral process, and to intervene to overcome any obstacles that may arise that might obstruct the progress of voting, in addition to receiving complaints and observations from citizens, political parties, and candidates, investigating them, and taking legal measures regarding them, as well as direct communication with the heads of the committees and the concerned authorities in order to clarify the validity of the complaints or not, and to remove their causes.

 

The National Elections Authority’s Operations Room stressed to the heads of the general committees the need for the polling subcommittees to adhere to them. Instructions regarding vote counting procedures at the end of the election day, and the right of candidates’ agents who hold approved powers of attorney issued in this regard, to attend the complete vote counting events, and to receive numerical tally forms at the conclusion of the counting work, with an emphasis that the outputs of the work of the sub-polling committees and the general committees are an announcement of the numerical tally only, given that announcing the results is within the jurisdiction of the National Elections Authority alone, and so that fragmentary information and data are not circulated and presented, contrary to the truth, as the results. The final stage.

 

The second phase of the parliamentary elections includes 13 governorates, namely (Cairo, Qalyubia, Dakahlia, Menoufia, Gharbia, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sharqia, Damietta, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, North Sinai, and South Sinai).

 

The number of voters who are eligible to cast their votes is 34 million and 611 thousand. There are 991 voters distributed among 73 electoral districts that include 5,287 sub-polling committees, while the number of candidates competing in the individual system at this stage is 1,316 candidates, competing for 141 individual seats, in addition to one electoral list in the East Delta sector, the Cairo sector, and the south and center of the Delta, for the seats allocated to the electoral list system.  

 

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