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Registration for Egypt parliamentary elections starts Feb. 8

Xinhua, January 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Egypt will open the door for registering candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections to submit their applications on Feb. 8, according to a statement posted on the Supreme Election Committee's official website on Thursday.

Egypt's parliamentary elections will be held in stages from March 21 to May 7, the first since the ouster of the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in July 2013.

Propaganda for the first stage scheduled on March 22-23 will start on Feb. 26, while the propaganda for the second stage scheduled on April 26-27 will begin on April 3, Chief Officer of the committee Ayamn Abbas said in the statement.

The parliamentary elections will be the final stage of road map outlined by the army-backed authority after the ouster of Morsi that envisaged adopting a new constitution, to be followed by presidential and parliamentary elections.

The parliamentary elections are expected to consolidate the regime of President Sisi, and would help improve the country's fragile economy after years of internal disorder.

According to a law ratified by Sisi late last month, the parliament will have a total of 567 seats, 420 for independent candidates, 120 for party-based ones and 27 for presidential appointees.

Independent candidates are distributed over 237 electoral districts, and party-based ones are distributed over four large districts, each of which includes a number of provinces.

The Egyptian parliament has been idle since it was dissolved in 2012 by the High Constitutional Court. Endit