Egyptian Shura Council elections to start Sunday

The first phase of the Egyptian Shura (Advisory) Council elections will start on Sunday to select 90 members. The elections will be held in 15 constituencies on lists and 15 other constituencies for individual seats during the first phase in which 25,380,626 voters will cast ballots in 26,000 sub-constituencies and 812 general constituencies under full judicial supervision. The Chancellor Abdul Moez Ibrahim, head of the Elections Supreme Committees asked eligible voters to participate effectively in the Advisory Council elections in order to effectuate their constitutional and legal rights, so that the result of the elections reflected their true will. In a statement today, Abdul Moez praised the spirit of cooperation and mutual respect between citizens and judges supervising the electoral process during the parliamentary elections that took place recently, adding that the world has seen their neutrality and fairness. He expressed the hope that the same spirit of cooperation and keenness by citizen to go to the polls would prevail in the Advisory Council elections. The first preparatory round for the first phase will be held on February 7 while the second and final phase will be held on February 14 and15 with the second round to be conducted on February 22.