The joint international mission issues its report on the candidacy phase for the House of Representatives elections

Oqail: We are monitoring the extent of commitment to international standards for the freedom and integrity of the electoral process

Fouki: The low political awareness is behind the exclusion of a large number of candidates

The joint international mission to follow up on the House of Representatives elections - Egypt 2020 has released its report on the candidacy stage in the Egyptian Parliament elections. This comes within the framework of the mission's operations room, which consists of 7 organizations from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, as well as the main local partner, the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights.

Ayman Aqil, head of the Maat Foundation and spokesperson for the mission, explained that the report deals with the candidacy stage, starting from inviting voters to announcing the final list of candidates in the Egyptian Parliament elections. Oqail emphasized that the report aims to demonstrate the extent of commitment to democratic principles and international standards for freedom and integrity of elections during the candidacy stage, and their suitability with the Egyptian laws and legislations regulating this stage, as well as following up on the executive and procedural implementation of these standards or not.

The spokesperson of the international mission indicated that there was a great deal of commitment at the legislative level to international standards for the freedom and integrity of elections during this stage, in addition to following the foundations of democratic practice, while some negative practices appeared at the executive level during the candidacy stage represented in the delay in deciding on appeals by the courts. Competent, in violation of the timeframe set by the National Elections Commission.

Meanwhile, Islam Fawki, Director of the Mission's Chamber of Operations, pointed to achieving political pluralism and electoral competition during the candidacy stage with the participation of more than 30 political parties, with 8 electoral lists competing for 4 electoral districts at the level of the Republic. With regard to the competition for individual seats, the number of candidates reached 4,032 people competing for 284 seats, which is a very high competitive rate, but we noticed an increase in the number of those excluded, whether from individual candidates for individual seats, or excluding electoral lists.

Fawki explained that despite adherence to the timetable for the deadline for receiving candidacy applications, a number of complaints have been reported related to the insufficient period set for submitting candidacy papers. Fouki called on the National Elections Authority to activate an electronic mechanism for communication and to receive observations and complaints, in addition to the speedy update of the agency’s website to keep pace with all stages of the electoral process.

 

To obtain a copy of the report, please send the request via e-mail 

 media@maatpeace.us.to

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