{"id":4408,"date":"2020-10-25T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:00:17","slug":"%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%ab%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b2%d9%88%d8%b1-52-%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%8b-%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%ab%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b2%d9%88%d8%b1-52-%d9%85%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%8b-%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Mission visits 52 election headquarters in 3 governorates to monitor the elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The joint Egyptian-European mission completed its work in following up the electoral currency on the second day of voting in the first phase elections.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The members of the mission set out on Sunday morning, October 25, for several separate election committees to see the progress of the electoral process in their second day.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The mission identified the governorates of Giza, Alexandria and Beni Suef within the framework of the work of the Egyptian-European coalition interested in following up the parliamentary elections in Egypt because of the importance it represents at the international level, and in light of the Egyptian laws organizing the electoral process and commitment to international standards, after obtaining the necessary permits from the National Elections Authority.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The mission formed 3 field teams for the governorates of Giza, Beni Suef and Alexandria to monitor and follow up the election process.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The members of the mission visited 52 electoral headquarters, 20 in Giza governorate, 12 in Bani Souf governorate, and 20 in Alexandria governorate, to follow up the electoral process and monitor the behavior of voters and election officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Beni Suef Governorate <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The voting bloc of Beni Suef Governorate is approximately 3 million electoral votes, with the total number of those who have the right to vote 2 million and 883 thousand and 354 voters.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">In Beni Suef Governorate, 91 candidates are competing for the eight individual seats allocated to the governorate in its four constituencies, distributed among 692 sub-committees at the governorate level within 481 electoral headquarters.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The governorate of Beni Suef also participates in the list of the North, Central and South Upper Egypt sectors, and 8 out of a total of 42 seats are allocated for the entire list, with two electoral lists competing for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Beni Suef includes 4 electoral districts, which are:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The first constituency is a committee at the headquarters of the New Beni Suef Youth Center, east of the Nile, with 434 thousand and 970 voters. It has two seats, and 24 candidates compete for them.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The second constituency includes the centers of Nasser and Al-Wasta. Two seats are allocated for it, and 32 candidates are competing over them.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The third constituency is at the headquarters of the Ihnasia Youth Center, and a single seat is reserved for it, with 7 candidates competing.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">And the fourth constituency, located in the youth center of the city of Baba, for which there are 3 seats, with 28 candidates competing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Giza <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The voting bloc of Giza governorate is 5 million 690 thousand electoral votes in 1160 electoral sub-committees.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It includes 12 electoral districts for which 480 schools are equipped as electoral headquarters, with 25 seats in the single system and 23 seats in the list system.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Giza governorate also participates in the list of the North, Central and South Upper Egypt sectors, and 23 out of a total of 42 seats are allocated for the entire list, with two electoral lists competing for them.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">While 12 electoral districts are competing for the individual seats, 317 candidates representing 36 political parties and independents are competing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Alexandria Governorate<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The voting bloc of Alexandria governorate reaches 4 million 67,901 electoral votes, 1160 sub-committees have been prepared for them.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">In Alexandria, 221 candidates, including 173 independent and 48 party candidates, are competing for 16 seats in 6 electoral districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The first constituency, Al-Montazah, has 4 seats, and 69 candidates compete.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The second constituency, El Raml, has 3 seats, and 39 candidates will compete<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The third constituency, Sidi Gaber, will have two seats, and 26 candidates will compete <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The fourth constituency, Muharram Bey, has two seats, and 28 candidates compete<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The Fifth Constituency Attarin has one seat, and 10 candidates will compete<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The Dakhila Sixth Constituency has 4 seats, and 43 candidates compete.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Alexandria governorate witnesses the largest percentage of women running, as 32 women run the elections in the 6 districts.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Twelve women will compete in the Al-Montazah district alone, 7 in the Dekheila district, and 6 in the Raml district.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Alexandria governorate also participates in the list of the West Delta sector, and 18 of the 42 seats are allocated for the entire list, with two electoral lists competing for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Observations of the Egyptian European Mission on the second election day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Low turnout in the morning compared to the evening period, hours before the polls closed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The intensity of voting by the elderly, unlike the first day, which witnessed a youth turnout for the elections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Women continue to lead the electoral scene, especially in Alexandria governorate committees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Candidates \u2019supporters try to break the propaganda silence and influence the voters by distributing pictures of their candidates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The impartiality of the executive bodies entrusted with securing the electoral commissions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The first stage of the House of Representatives elections includes 14 governorates, and they are: <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Giza, Beni Suef, Fayoum, Beheira, Assiut, Matrouh, Minya, New Valley, Red Sea, Alexandria, Sohag, Qena, Luxor and Aswan.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The first phase of the elections includes 10 thousand and 240 electoral sub-committees, while 33 million voters are entitled to cast their votes on polling days. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">In the first phase of the elections, 1879 candidates are competing in 143 electoral districts spread over 14 governorates, to choose 284 deputies, 25% of whom are reserved for women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The closed list elections for the first phase consist of two sectors:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The first sector, the North, Central and Southern Upper Egypt sector, represents 100 seats for which 200 candidates are competing, through two electoral lists.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The second sector, West Delta, represents 42 seats, with 84 candidates competing against them across two lists.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"w-gallery wp_gallery type_grid action_popup_image ratio_auto count_3\" style=\"--columns:1;--items-gap:8px;\"><div class=\"w-gallery-list\"><div class=\"w-gallery-item\"><div class=\"w-gallery-item-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0025.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0025.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0025-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0025-16x9.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"w-gallery-item-link\" aria-label=\"IMG-20201025-WA0025\" href=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0025.jpg\" ref=\"magnificPopup\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"w-gallery-item\"><div class=\"w-gallery-item-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1242\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0024.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0024-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0024-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0024-16x9.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"w-gallery-item-link\" aria-label=\"IMG-20201025-WA0024\" href=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0024.jpg\" ref=\"magnificPopup\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"w-gallery-item\"><div class=\"w-gallery-item-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1242\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0027.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0027.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0027-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0027-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0027-16x9.jpg 16w, https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0027-600x336.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"w-gallery-item-link\" aria-label=\"IMG-20201025-WA0027\" href=\"https:\/\/pfort.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG-20201025-WA0027.jpg\" ref=\"magnificPopup\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joint Egyptian-European mission completed its work in following up on the progress of the electoral process on the second day of voting in the first stage elections. The mission members set out this morning, Sunday, October 25, for several different electoral committees to monitor the progress of the electoral process on their second day. The mission identified the governorates of Giza, Alexandria, and Beni Suef as part of the work of the Egyptian-European coalition interested in following up\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-688"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfort.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}