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The motivation behind the 2020 protests are similar to that of the 2019 protests. Many Egyptians had been discontent towards the government because of police brutality [13] and the economic issues the country had been facing as a result of the 2016 austerity measures; [5] [9] in 2020, almost 70% of the Egyptian population lived under the poverty line. [5]
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]
November 8 – 2020 Egyptian parliamentary election November 12 – A man identified as Mohammed Hosni sets himself on fire in Cairo's Tahrir Square in protest in against corruption. [ 46 ]
A steady deterioration of the economy puts Egypt under pressure to take long-awaited measures following a presidential election, foremost among them a currency devaluation and a hike in interest ...
In the 2011–12 Egypt parliamentary elections, the Islamist Bloc led by al‑Nour party received 7,534,266 votes out of a total 27,065,135 correct votes (27.8%). The Islamist Bloc , of which al-Nour was a member, gained 127 of the 498 parliamentary seats contested, [ 3 ] second-place after the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party .
(Reuters) - Egypt holds a presidential election on Dec. 10-12 in which Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is set to secure six more years in power. The vote comes after a decade-long crackdown on dissent that ...
Egypt will hold a presidential election over three days in December, officials announced Monday, with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi highly likely to remain in power until 2030. Waleed Hamza, the ...
2020 Egyptian protests; S. 2020 Egyptian Senate election; Z. Detention of Patrick Zaki This page was last edited on 22 January 2022, at 16:03 (UTC). Text is ...