Dr. Walaa Abdel Karim, director of the Partners for Transparency Foundation, said that the announcement by the Supreme Committee that supervises the elections to open the door for submitting candidacy application papers from the day after tomorrow, Tuesday, the first of September, was a surprising decision and confused everyone, pointing out that the political parties were Expect the decision to open the candidacy date at the beginning of October.
"Abdel-Karim" added to "Vito" that political parties, since the January revolution, have been unable to form integrated electoral lists with the exception of the Nour Party and the Egypt Love List, due to the difficult conditions stipulated by these lists.
The director of Partners for Transparency pointed out that despite the tight deadline for submitting candidacy applications, it is a positive sign indicating that the committee works in isolation from the executive authority, and does not consider political calculations, but the harmonization required giving a longer timetable in preparation for opening The door to submit candidacy applications.
Abdel-Karim emphasized that the electoral campaign period is determined by the law implicitly in the exercise of political rights, which begins on the second day after the end of the electoral appeals period, and the announcement of the final rolls and continues until twelve noon before polling day.
