Egypt's Senate Elections... Sisi Casts Vote in Heliopolis

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi cast his vote at nine o'clock in the morning at the Martyr Mostafa Yousry Omira School in Heliopolis, in the Senate elections.

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Polling stations opened in Egypt’s governorates, Tuesday, on the first day of voting on the Senate elections at nine in the morning, amid the influx of voters and precautionary measures due to the novel coronavirus.

The vicinity of the school witnessed intensified security to secure the electoral process.

Senate elections take place on Tuesday and Wednesday when the Senate law pided the Arab Republic of Egypt into 27 constituencies for the inpidual system, through which 100 deputies are elected.

According to the law, each governorate is an electoral district, in which the voters elect a number of seats, which have been allocated to each governorate in a manner that takes into account the equitable representation of the population and the governorates.

The law specified the number of senators. They are 300 members, two-thirds of the 200 members are elected, and 100 members are appointed by the President; representing a third of the Senate’s members.