All international missions to follow up on the parliamentary elections have completed their preparations to monitor the progress of the voting and counting process in the run-off round in the governorates of the first phase, which is taking place today or tomorrow, and have redistributed their field observers in the run-off departments to individual seats in the governorates of Giza, Alexandria, Fayoum, Beni Suef, Sohag, Qena, Luxor and Aswan, and linking the observers ’movement to a room. The main operations of each international mission, to work to overcome any difficulties facing the observers by communicating with the local authorities and general election committees in each governorate.
International observation missions monitored indications of a decrease in the rate of political participation in the voting process in the run-off after the party lists came out, the majority of candidates from the election race, and the restriction of competition between two candidates for one seat and four candidates for the two seats in most districts, which would reduce voter turnout rates for Vote.
The joint local international mission also observed that the candidates use all social means to attract voters to vote, including one of the run-off candidates in the Minya City Department carrying out some infringing propaganda activities, distributing material sums and meat to citizens in front of his electoral headquarters, and doing daily shoddy work to sell meat by reducing 50% from its price. The normal, as I observed, one of the candidates in the Mahmoudiya and Rahmaniyah constituencies made a speech in front of the Ibn al-Nafees mosque to urge the people to vote in the run-off during the gathering of voters in the Friday prayers.
At the time, he appealed to Dr. Salah Salam, a member of the National Council for Human Rights and the Doctors Syndicate in NorthSinai President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the Supreme Elections Committee to postpone holding the parliamentary elections in the districts of Al-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid, which will take place in the second phase this month after the assassination of a candidate until Sinai is made completely free of terrorism, in order to preserve the lives of the candidates, judges, those in charge of the electoral process and voters, or the appointment of representatives with these The two constituencies of whom the president deems appropriate, while the mission continued its monitoring work in the governorates' departments of the second phase and monitored the start of the advertisement for a number of candidates before the beginning of the legal period for electoral campaigning, in violation of the organizing rules issued by the Supreme Elections Commission, violating the law and leading to penalties for the candidate. A candidate in the Burullus district in Kafr El-Sheikh, a football league in the village of Aqoula, and he distributed gifts to the winning teams in addition to the championship cup,
The Partners for Transparency Foundation, in its first report to assess electoral financing and spending for electoral districts in the stage, monitored a set of observations in the Muharram Bey and Fayoum districts, most notably that the majority of the candidates in the two constituencies did not commit to recording the accounts related to their electoral campaigns in regular records in the manner specified by the Law on the Exercise of Political Rights. This is the violation of the vast majority of candidates in the two constituencies, and the vast majority of the candidates do not include statutory accountants in their campaigns in the form specified by the Law on the Exercise of Political Rights, which opens the door to random funding and spending .. Also a note noted that the majority of candidates refuse to disclose donations. They have received or denied receiving such donations, and the reluctance of the vast majority of candidates to announce their bank account number, the real financial value of their campaign expenditures, and their constituency funding sources.
A third observation was made about the practice of electoral advertising at other than its legal timings, which is a clear violation of the regulatory rules contained in the Law on the Exercise of Political Rights.