Egyptian parties criticize their non -expulsion in the “National List” of the Elderly elections
A few hours before the announcement of candidates in the “United National List” for elections to the Senate of Egypt (the Second Chamber of Parliament), the Egyptian parties criticized their exclusion from the list, despite “participation in the national dialogue” and “their initial greeting of participation in the list” decided to compete for individual places, despite “difficulties”.
On Saturday, the National Election Department began to receive requests for candidacy for elections in the Senate, scheduled for August of the next. “Elders” consists of 300 members; 100 of them are elected in accordance with the system of closed lists, which means a complete victory of its members, if they reach the highest votes, and 100 in a separate system, in addition to 100 by the other president of the republic.
The Party Vatan party is currently headed by the parliamentary majority, which currently leads the formation of the “national list”, which includes 13 parties, including the “Parties of Ham Al -Vatan”, “National Front”, “Al -WEFD” and “Gathering” and the Party related to the opposition, such as “Democrat -Democrat and Development”.
With the Exception of the “National Front” Party, Which Was Officials Established in December 2024, Some of these Parties Had Previor Contested the Parliamentary Electers in 2020 Under the Name of the “For egypt” List, But it was absent from the Second Time The “Free Egyptians” Party, Which “Criticized the for Formation and EXIST Of the list “, as well as the” AWARENESS “PARTY, Which WAS Re -Established Months Ago, and Was Hoping That” The National List included all the parties that participated in the national dialogue, “reports his President Basil Adele.
Adele told Al -Sharku al -Vausat that they “still demand their party to join the united list; Moreover, the party participated in the national dialogue, and this list should have included all those who participated in the dialogue, ”noting that the party decided to challenge the elections, whether on an individual or list, and if it was not included in the“ national list ”, it will focus on the individual system.
The elections of the Elders will begin beyond Egypt on August 1 and 2, and the internal elections will take place 4 and 5 of the same month.
On Thursday, the Party of the Future Vatan was a meeting at its headquarters -apartment, which included representatives of the parties participating in the National List in order to coordinate in it. According to the first statement in the name of the list, “participation in its formation reflects the desire of all those present in order to adhere to the idea of joint work for the highest interests of Egypt and its people, especially at present, very sensitive at regional and international levels.”
The Secretary -General of the “Free Egyptians” Party, Heba Wasel, Criticized the Party’s “National List”, Telling the “Middle East” with the Beginning of the Call Too Form A Unified List for the Elections by One of the Parties (The Free Egyptians) Announced in An Official Statement His Welcome to this Invitation, and Waiting for Him TO Formally Go to HIM, BUTO No Invitation to Join Us Has Reted, “Confirming That They Compete For Some Seats is individual.” She added that “the exception happened not only with (free Egyptians)”, saying: “There are many parties in Egypt, but also on the list of only 13 parties.”
“Al -Nour” is also one of the parties that were not called upon to participate in the “National List”, and the head of the highest body of the party, the Sauch Bassiuni, told Al -Shark Al -Ausat that “the party from the very beginning decided (elders) in some lists in some circles,” they trust that they will trust to be reached to ensure that they are in order to ensure that they are in order to ensure that they are Competitions. Noting that during the 2015 elections, during the 2015 elections, during the 2015 and 2020 elections, they did not participate in which list, and despite this, he was presented in parliament in his two rooms.
As for Mona Shamas, the secretary of the media in the “Egyptian Democratic Party” (one of the parties presented on the national list), she said that they did not know the criteria adopted by the list of the list in their choice of participating parties, or why did some people invited and ignored others?
She added to Auchark al -Vausat that for them they had a position that they put forward and were taken on the list, that is, a coalition, which is only elections, leaving freedom for participants to launch their propaganda in accordance with their election programs, principles and party condemnations.
On Thursday, the “National List” announced ”the agreement on the recruitment of objective criteria for choosing a list of a list of a list of both partisan and political entities involved in it, which have the right to choose to achieve a sequence and homogretics between the list and ensures Egyptian voters who achieve their effectiveness, holistic and the ability to achieve its legal hopes.
According to the head of the National Directorate of the Election, Hazem Badavi, committees receiving applications for candidacy for elections in the Senate, regularly began their work on the first day, on Saturday, in all the headquarters indicated by the authority in the first cases, and the number of those who presented candidate documents 201, throughout the candidate for the “list of candidates” for candidate indicators.
