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14.23% turnout in Egypt Senate election

By IANS | Updated: August 20, 2020 16:04 IST

.76 million, representing 84.58 of the total votes, Xinhua news agency quoted NEA chief Lasheen Ibrahim as saying on ...

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.76 million, representing 84.58 of the total votes, Xinhua news agency quoted NEA chief Lasheen Ibrahim as saying on Wednesday.

"The election was held under full judiciary supervision," he said, describing the polls as "fair" and "competitive".

The voters in Egypt cast their votes on August 11-12 in more than 14,000 polling stations, while expatriates did on August 9-10, to elect 200 senators out of 300 members.

The rest 100 will be appointed by the President.

Ibrahim said that 997 candidates were in the fray, noting that the polling process was monitored by 47 local and 14 foreign organizations, 33 local and 162 foreign media institutions, and three human rights councils.

Created in a 2019 constitutional amendment, the new Senate, whose term is five years, will be an advisory body to the main House of Representatives without legislative authorities, replacing the Shoura Council, the upper house of Egypt's Parliament that was dissolved in 2014.

 

( With inputs from IANS )

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