Senate Elections: Abdel Aal Casts Vote in Nasr City

Egypt's Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal cast his vote Tuesday at workers university, in Nasr City, in the Senate elections.

It is worth mentioning that, 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.

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.

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