The Egyptian parties participating in the elections to the Senate (the Second Chamber of Parliament) complained about the difficulties related to “electoral advertising”.
With the announcement of the “National Election Commission” on Friday, the initial list of election candidates, the door to obtain an appeal was opened until the next Sunday before the administrative court, which will have to be decided to appeal during the period from Monday to the next midst, according to the time scale of the elections.
“Electoral silence” is planned to begin, and the election campaigns will stop from July 31, prepared for the voting process on August 1 and 2, in August next year at Egyptian embassies abroad, which will take place within 4 and 5 of the same month.
Tarik Darwish, the head of the Liberal party, told Aharku al -Vausat that “the breadth of electoral districts in some places made large financial resources for each candidate who intends to compete for certain places in the elections that are not available to the party and have a large number of Egyptian parties.”
He added that the material costs of advertising for the arrival of a candidate for all parts of his circle are superior to the capabilities of any individual candidate or party and require a huge potential for moving and interacting with voters in propaganda events, explaining what he will do during his membership in the Council, indicating that the party expects existence in the national list ”, in addition to its membership period in 6 candidates in 6 candidates separate places; But he was surprised to get out of the list in the last minutes.
He agrees with him, according to the Secretary General of the Egyptian Social, the Democratic Party in the name of Camel, who said to Aucarca al -Ausat that “the separation of the constituencies (elders) in election law gives a greater opportunity to succeed for those who can spend on propaganda, which are real observations, by name, due to sustainable by name, due to a sustainable level. To satisfy the party, only 5 candidates in the circle elections.
Camel touched on the difficulties that are faced with the parties regarding the expenses of propaganda in the elections in the light of the presence of electoral areas in the vast geographically vast areas where the candidate is present, indicating that they are presented in the National Dialog in several sentences to avoid this point; But it was not taken.
The “elders” of political life were restored in accordance with the constitutional amendments that took place in 2019, consulting councils consisting of 300 members, a third of them with the appointment of the president of the republic, and among its goals – “deepening the democratic system and expanding its fields”, according to the text of Article 248 of the Constitution.
The elections are held for 200 seats in the Council, half of which were distributed in the list by 4 voters in which only 5 percent of voters for success, while 469 candidates compete for separate places, according to the National Elections, put forward the “national list”.
Professor of political science at the University of Cairo, Mustafa Camel Al -Sayid, noted that the cost of advertising necessary from candidates to separate places is large if he wants to distribute propaganda signs and hold mass conferences within the framework of his department, indicating that some governors have two places in the individual system that are very difficult to move the candidates that they make. He added to Auchark al -Vausat that “the articles of the law regulating elections that need fundamental amendments that have not yet been made.”