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Former MP Sadat says will not run in the 2018 Egypt presidential elections.

15 Ene 2018
Egipto
Fuente: 
Ahram Online

Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat, the former MP and head of the human rights committee in the Egyptian parliament, announced in a press conference on Monday that he will not run in the upcoming presidential elections, which are set for March, citing "indicators of the electoral scene not being reassuring".

 

Egipto celebrará elecciones presidenciales entre el 26 y el 28 de marzo.

08 Ene 2018
Egipto
Fuente: 
El Economista

Las autoridades egipcias han anunciado este lunes que entre el 26 y el 28 de marzo tendrán lugar las próximas elecciones presidenciales, las terceras que se celebrarán en el país norteafricano desde que, a principios en 2011, cayó el régimen de Hosni Mubarak.

 El actual mandatario, Abdelfatá al Sisi, que llegó al poder tras un golpe de Estado en 2013, es el favorito indiscutible para la próxima cita y, salvo sorpresas, logrará un segundo mandato. Al Sisi, no obstante, aún no ha anunciado formalmente su candidatura.

Emergency state does not adversely affect freedom of candidacy

04 Nov 2017
Egipto
Fuente: 
Egypt Today

CAIRO – 4 November 2017: Egypt's 2018 Presidential Election Observatory argued that the Parliament’s move to enforce an emergency state across the country is not adversely impacting the freedom of the candidacy. 

In its second report regarding the procedures and environment surrounding the electoral process, the observatory argued that the candidacy process provides fair competitiveness and that there are no complaints reported by any candidates about any possible disruptions. 

Egypt court overturns Mohamed Morsi's life sentence

22 Nov 2016
Egipto
Fuente: 
Al Jazeera

Egypt's Court of Cassation orders retrial in the case for deposed president who had a death sentence overturned earlier.

Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi has had a life sentence overturned by the country's Court of Cassation, which ordered a retrial in the case that revolves around accusations of espionage with Palestinian group Hamas.

Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, had a death sentence overturned by the same court last week and a retrial was ordered.

Egypt's Mohamed Morsi has death sentence overturned

15 Nov 2016
Egipto
Fuente: 
Al Jazeera

Court overturns sentence against Egypt's first democratically elected president and orders a retrial.

Egypt's court of cassation has overturned a death sentence against the country's deposed president Mohamed Morsi and ordered a retrial, according to reports.

The country's first democratically elected president, Morsi was overthrown by a military coup in July 2013 after having served just one year of a four-year term.

Two Egyptian MPs to compete for head of legislative committee post

12 Oct 2016
Egipto
Fuente: 
Ahram online

Two high-profile MPs from rival camps seek to head parliament's legislative and constitutional affairs committee

 

Opposition MPs and high-profile lawyers Alaa Abdel-Moneim and Bahaaeddin Abu Shoka announced Wednesday that they have each decided to stand for the post of head of parliament's legislative and constitutional affairs committee.

MPs are expected to elect the senior members of 25 committees Sunday or Monday.

Team to draw up programme for a candidate in Egypt 2018 election: Former presidential aide Heggy

02 Ago 2016
Egipto
Fuente: 
Ahram online

Former presidential scientific advisor Essam Heggy announced on Tuesday that a number of figures from across the political spectrum will form a committee to prepare a presidential programme to be adopted by any potential candidate in the 2018 presidential elections.

 

The aim of the initiative is to draw up a programme under the slogan "fight poverty, ignorance and disease," to be adopted by potential candidates and implemented as state policies once they get into office, Heggy said in a statement on his Facebook page.

Egypt's Conservatives Party urges government to consider asylum request from Gulen if presented

30 Jul 2016
Egipto
Fuente: 
Ahram online

Egypt's Conservatives Party urged the government to consider giving political asylum to exiled Turkish opposition figure Fethullah Gulen should he submit an official request.

According to the party’s deputy chairman Mohsen Fawzi, "if Gulen decided to submit an official political asylum request to Egypt, the government should consider it and it has the right to approve or reject it."

The Conservatives Party is an Egyptian opposition party with six MPs in parliament led by business tycoon Akmal Qortam.

Egypt's cabinet to get a bitter vote of confidence in parliament

14 Abr 2016
Egipto
Fuente: 
Al Ahram

The government of Prime Minister Sherif Ismail will face its first vote of confidence in parliament next week.

 

Parliament deputy speaker Al-Sayed Al-Sherif told reporters this week that Prime Minister Ismail will come to parliament next Wednesday to respond to MPs' comments on his government's policy statement, which he delivered before parliament 27 March.

"At the end of his response, MPs will be required to grant or withhold confidence in Ismail's government," said Al-Sherif.

Who's who: Meet Egypt's 10 new ministers in Sherif Ismail's cabinet

23 Mar 2016
Egipto
Fuente: 
Ahram online

Ten new ministers were sworn in on Wednesday before Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi at Cairo's Ittihadeya Presidential Palace.

 

Minister of Justice - Mohamed Hossam Abdel-Rahim

Born in February 1945, Abdel-Rahim graduated from the Faculty of Law at Ain Shams University in 1966.

He started his career as a prosecutor in 1967, later being appointed as a judge in 1976.

In July 2014, he was appointed as head of the cassation court and the High Judicial Council for his seniority.

Egypt in second day of 'election without voters'

21 Oct 2015
Egipto
Fuente: 
Reuters

As the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections came to a close on Monday night, turnout appeared weak for the second consecutive day, highlighting growing disillusionment since the army seized power in 2013.

Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said turnout on Sunday had been just 15-16 percent, but that it should rise after public sector workers were given a half-day off to vote.

Islamist Nour Party faces stunning defeat in Egypt, secular coalition emerges victorious: Initial poll results

20 Oct 2015
Egipto
Fuente: 
Ahram Online

Semi-official results from the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections show that the "For the Love of Egypt" electoral coalition has emerged victorious, with the ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist force contesting in the polls, facing a big defeat.

 

Turnout low in Egypt's long-awaited parliamentary election

19 Oct 2015
Egipto
Fuente: 
Egypt Independent

Many Egyptian voters shunned the first phase of a parliamentary election on Sunday that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has hailed as a milestone on the road to democracy but his critics have branded as a sham.

Polling stations visited by Reuters correspondents pointed to a turnout of around 10 percent, in sharp contrast to the long lines that formed in the 2012 election, suggesting that Sisi, who has enjoyed cult-like adulation, is losing popularity.

La escasa participación marca las elecciones legislativas en Egipto

18 Oct 2015
Egipto
Fuente: 
El País

La primera jornada de las elecciones legislativas egipcias, que se dividen en varias rondas y no terminarán hasta el mes de diciembre, ha estado marcada este domingo por una bajísima participación. A falta de una cifra oficial, algunas informaciones apuntaban a una tasa de participación inferior al 15%. En las anteriores legislativas, celebradas a finales del 2011, votó cerca de un 65% de los ciudadanos. A diferencia de aquellos comicios, en estos apenas si concurre algún partido de la oposición al régimen del mariscal Abdelfattá al Sisi, ya sea islamista o laica.

Egypt's parliamentary elections: Smooth first day, 'too early to judge turnout'

18 Oct 2015
Egipto
Fuente: 
Al Ahram

Polling stations have closed their doors at 9pm Sunday on the first day of Egypt’s long-awaited 2015 parliamentary elections after a slow but smooth start to polling.

 

Abdullah Fathi, head of the Judges' Club - an unofficial but powerful body that represents the majority of Egypt's judges - told Al Hayat TV that the club's reports of polling station monitoring labelled the vote turnout "clearly and unjustifiably weak."

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