Egypt parliamentary polls to be held before end of 2015: Sisi

Egypt's parliamentary elections will be held before the end of 2015, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi told a Spanish newspaper in an interview that was published on Wednesday.

The Egyptian president told El Mundo that the polls were due to be held in March but the constitutional appeals against the newly-drafted election law delayed the process.

"The state is determined to hold the parliamentary elections to complete Egypt's democratic institutions," Sisi asserted.

In early March, Egypt's Administrative Court ordered the delay of the parliamentary elections after the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled parts of the electoral laws, related to division of constituencies as "unconstitutional."

Egypt's parliamentary polls, the first since the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi by the military in July 2013, were supposed to kick off on March 21 until May 7.

The country has been without a parliament for about three years, after the one elected in late 2011 was dissolved in June 2012 by a court order.

President Sisi, who led Morsi's overthrow as then-army chief in response to a mass protest against his one-year rule, is currently holding the legislative authority in the absence of parliament.

After the new constitution and the presidential elections were accomplished, the parliamentary elections represent the third and final phase of the country's future roadmap declared by Sisi on Morsi's ouster. Endit