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Egypt Sets Parliamentary Elections


Road to Cairo International airport, Cairo Egypt. (photo by Diaa Bekheet)
Road to Cairo International airport, Cairo Egypt. (photo by Diaa Bekheet)

Egypt said Sunday it will conduct two-stage parliamentary elections in October and November, the first since then-military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sissi overthrew the country's first freely elected civilian President Mohamed Morsi two years ago and later was elected president himself.

Egypt has been without a legislature since June of 2012, when a court dissolved the democratically elected main chamber. President Sissi has passed dozens of laws by decree.

The country's election agency said the elections to fill seats in the 568-member parliament will start in mid-October, with half of the country's governorates voting, followed by voting in the remaining governorates in November.

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