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Egypt has had differing multi-party systems since independence, with a hiatus between 1953 and 1977, after which the current party law was enacted. [1] Nevertheless, in practice the National Democratic Party was the long-time ruling party and dominated the Egyptian political arena, first under president Anwar Sadat, and then president Hosni Mubarak from its foundation in 1978, up until its ...
The Parliament of Egypt is made up of 596 seats, with 448 seats elected through the single-member districts, 120 elected through party block vote in which party list must win more than 50% of the votes to win all seats however if no list achieves the threshold, a second round is held between top two parties and the list with the most votes wins.
The elections were initially expected to be held in April or May 2020. [2] President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ordered parliament to freeze its activities on 1 October 2019 and placed the National Security Agency (NSA) in charge of creating lists of candidates as the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) had not satisfactorily selected candidates in the previous election. [3]
Rassd News Network, also known by its initials of RNN (Arabic:شبكة رصد الاخبارية), is an alternative media network based in Cairo, Egypt. RNN was launched as a Facebook-based news source launched on January 25, 2011. It quickly advanced to become a primary contributor of Egyptian revolution-related news that year
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Fatma Said born and raised in Cairo, where she attended the Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen Kairo. [4] [5] Her father, Ahmed Hassan Said, was the first president of the Free Egyptians Party founded during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
The El-Ghad Party became the second party to boycott the elections. [12] The New Wafd Party ignored boycott calls saying in its party paper that it would run in the elections. [13] The Muslim Brotherhood, however, disavowed boycott calls from other opposition allies, which the party leadership said the decision was made by consensus.
Mostafa aimed to create electoral lists excluding the Muslim Brotherhood and former members of the National Democratic Party. [7] 120 candidates will be selected to run. [8] The 25-30 Alliance has stated that it is not part of the alliance. [9] The parties affiliated with the National Front Alliance have joined the Reawakening of Egypt. [10]