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Egypt's High Elections Committee (HEC) accepted on Thursday the application of steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz to stand as a nominated candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections despite a court order that was due to disqualify him from the race. 

The application was presented by Ezz’s solicitor Mohamed Hamouda to the HEC in Shebin El-Kom in the Nile Delta governorate of Menoufiya

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court upheld a ruling on Tuesday to disqualify Ezz from running in the parliamentary elections.

KARACHI: The minority communities in Sindh are troubled yet again. For the upcoming local government elections, they have been deprived of the right to vote for their own candidates as the non-Muslims nominated on the reserved seats for minorities will be elected by members of union councils and union committees.

Les négociations entre les chefs de partis de la majorité, réunis au domicile d’Abdelilah Benkirane, à Rabat, mardi 8 septembre, ont échoué à dégager un consensus clair sur qui présidera les régions et villes remportées par les partis au gouvernement.

The High Elections Committee (HEC) announced on Wednesday that it will redraw the boundaries of two electoral constituencies, one in Cairo and one in the Upper Egypt governorate of Qena, in accordance with an Administrative Court ruling issued on Monday.

On Monday, the Administrative Court ruled that the cabinet must redraw two constituency boundaries due to administrative errors committed.

Three draft laws organising the next municipal elections will be submitted to the parliament before the end of 2015, Secretary of State in charge of Local Affairs Hédi Majdoub told TAP on Tuesday. 

The three texts concern the organic bill related to the regional and municipal elections, the draft law related to the budget of the local communities and the draft law to local authorities code.   

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court upheld a decision on Tuesday to disqualify steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

This is a final decision which Ezz cannot appeal.

Ezz, a former senior member of the National Democratic Party (NDP), was disqualified in February from running in the elections by the High Elections Committee (HEC in Menoufiya. He appealed the decision but it was upheld by a Cairo court.

Abu Dhabi: Scores of the 341 candidates running in the Federal National Council (FNC) elections started their campaigns across the UAE yesterday (Tuesday), bidding to win one of the 20 seats available.

The other 20 seats of the UAE’s unicameral house will be filled by Their Highnesses the Supreme Council Members and Rulers of the Emirates.

The hopefuls were promoting their credentials through billboard and newspaper advertising and press conferences, with many of them embracing the trend by using social media networks including Facebook and Twitter.

Un total de 46 personas están arrestadas en Marruecos tras haber sido denunciadas por irregularidades cometidas durante las elecciones municipales y regionales del pasado viernes, informó hoy la Comisión gubernamental de seguimiento electoral.

Las denuncias llevaron a abrir procedimientos judiciales contra 258 personas, de las que 46 están arrestadas supuestamente por la gravedad del delito denunciado, que no se precisa.

Le scrutin s'est déroulé "dans un climat offrant les garanties essentielles de liberté, de sincérité et de transparence", selon Driss El Yazami.