Egypt elections Live Blog

Election banners hang near buses ahead of parliamentary elections in Cairo November 14, 2011 [Reuters]

Al Jazeera staff and correspondents update you on the latest from Egypt as the country takes its first steps towards a post-Mubarak future with parliamentary elections.

6 days 10 hours ago - Egypt

Egypt’s administrative court has ruled to halt the implementation of a ruling by the Egypt's High Presidential Election Commission to refer political isolation law to the Supreme Constitutional Court.

The ruling sparked a legal controversy in Egypt about whether that it would invalidate the inclusion of presidential candidate, Ahmed Shafiq , in the final list of candidates or not.

Several lawyers have filed a suit in front of the administrative judiciary, confirming that Egypt's High Presidential Election Commission has not the right to refer the law to the Constitutional Court.

Mohamed Saad Katatni, parliament speaker, criticised the statement issued by the Presidential Election Commission, which referred to the possibility of suspending their work, because of what it considered rudeness by some lawmakers.

Katatni said that the parliament has fulfilled its role under the constitution and the law.

Tags Egypt elections, Egyptian presidential election, Mohamed Saad al Katatni
3 weeks 5 days ago - Egypt

Amr Moussa, candidate for Egypt’s presidential elections, has called on the military council to be committed to the timetable for handing over power by the end of June. 

Moussa has warned in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera that the prolongation of the transitional period will shake the image of Egypt in front of the the world and will lead to many disasters and problems the transitional period is full of.

 

Tags Amr Moussa, Egypt elections
3 weeks 6 days ago - Egypt

Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater, who has been barred from Egypt's first post-Arab Spring presidential election, on Wednesday accused the country's military rulers of seeking to stay in power.

"The way the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) runs Egypt... shows manipulation in the democratisation process and a desire to prevent people from democratically electing their president," Shater told journalists.

He accused Egypt's military rulers of seeking "to extend the transitional period," which is scheduled to end in June after a president is elected.

"The SCAF wants to pull the strings of power from behind the scenes," said Shater, a wealthy businessman and influential member of Egypt's powerful Brotherhood.

Shater said the Islamists would join a demonstration on Friday organised by the same movements that ousted veteran president Hosni Mubarak.


[Source: AFP]

Tags Egypt elections, Khairat al Shater, Muslim Brotherhood
3 weeks 6 days ago - Egypt

Among the candidates still able to run are former Arab League chief Amr Mussa and Abdelmoneim Abul Fotouh, a one-time member of the powerful Brotherhood.

"It's a very important decision because it eliminates the most controversial candidates," said Mustafa Kamel al-Sayyed, professor of political science at Cairo University.

It is expected that those who would have voted for Suleiman would support Mussa, and Islamists may back Abul Fotouh.

But with the only Salafist candidate out of the race, "there is fear of reactions from the Abu Ismail supporters, who are not very disciplined," said Sayyed.

Abu Ismail supporters spent the night in protest outside the electoral commission.

-AFP

Tags Abdelmoneim Abul Fotouh, Amr Mussa, Egypt elections
4 weeks 10 hours ago - Egypt

Three of Egypt's main presidential candidates have filed appeals after the election commission barred them from running, shaking up an already tumultuous race and political transition.

The election commission is expected to decide on Tuesday which appeals will be reviewed, and a final list of candidates will be released April 26, just under a month before the May 23-24 vote.

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Tags Egypt elections, Hazem Abu Ismail, Muslim Brotherhood, Omar Suleiman
4 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Egypt election body disqualifies 10 candidates from presidential pol, including ex-spy chief Omar Suleiman, Brotherhood's Khairat Elshater, and Hazem Abu Ismail.

[Source:Reuters]

Tags Egypt elections, Omar Suleiman
4 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Omar Suleiman, former vice-president of the deposed Egyptian president and a candidate for president, has expressed his surprise and rejection of the amendments made by the Egyptian parliament on political rights law that prevents former regime officials from their political rights.

Sulaiman has affirmed they (the amendments) personally target him and not candidates for president or former officials.

Sulaiman has said in a press interview that he will resort to the law in the event the ruling military council ratified the amendments, without being presented to the Constitutional Court to resolve its constitutionality or not.

[Source: AJA]

Tags Egypt elections, Omar Suleiman, SCAF
4 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under the ousted Egyptian president and a candidate for the presidential elections, has said that the amendments made by parliament to the political rights law that prevents figures from  the former regime from running for presidential elections, is flagrant bias, constitutional sin and an attempt to impose a trusteeship on Egyptians.

Shafiq has said during an election rally that amendments are against the supposed balance of powers.

He has also stressed that he continues in the presidential race until the end and the ballot box.

[Source: AJA]

Tags ahmed shafiq, Egypt elections
4 weeks 4 days ago - Egypt Elections

Thousands of Egyptians have protested in the capital Cairo.  

They want officials who served under the former President Hosni Mubarak to be banned from running in the upcoming election.
 
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports from Cairo.

Tags egypt, Tahrir Square
4 weeks 4 days ago - Egypt Elections

Presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu Ismail said late on Thursday that he got an official document from the Interior Ministry stating that his mother was not a dual Egyptian-American citizen and that she held only Egyptian citizenship.

Abu Ismail added in a videoclip published on his official page on Facebook that he submitted the document to the Presidential Elections Commission on Thursday.

He noted that head of the commission, Farouk Sultan, "received the certificate issued by the Interior Ministry while the commission was in session."

Abu Ismail said he asked the commission so send him a copy of the papers that the Interior Ministry had originally submitted claiming that his mother had American citizenship, but Sultan refused to provide Abu Ismail with a copy, saying "these were the instructions." Abu Ismail added that Sultan allowed him to look at the documents and that they were largely fraudulent.

Abu Ismail challenged the commission to "publish these papers, because they were just fraud."

He said that it was not part of the Presidential Elections Commission’s mandate to determine the nationality of his mother.

He said that the papers submitted to prove his mother was an American national were "American travel documents, a voting certificate, a certificate from a records bureau in Los Angeles, and others."

He considered the State Council Administrative Court ruling in his favor "a strong message to the US and Israel." He added: "They wanted to murder us, but God wanted something else."
 
Abu Ismail accused the media of "twisting the facts and manipulation." He said the media has 48 hours to apologize or "they deserve what would happen."

[Source: Al-Masry AL-Youm]

Tags egypt, Egyptian Salafists, Hazem Abu Ismail
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