The Daily Message for the International-Local Mission to Observe the Parliamentary Elections
October 10, 2015
Aqeel: The increase in the violations of some candidates, the decline in the violations of the parties, and the disappearance of the violations of state agencies
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For the sixth consecutive week, the field monitoring team led by the Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights, and affiliated with the joint international local mission to follow up on the parliamentary elections, continued to monitor the course of the electoral process, which is currently living in the vicinity of the electoral campaigners in the governorates of the first phase.
Ayman Aqil, head of the Maat Foundation and a spokesperson for the joint local international mission, stated that there is a noticeable increase in violations by some candidates as the polling date approaches, and in parallel there is a significant decline in abuses that we can call the parties' institutional abuses. ”He also indicated that so far, no We monitor significant violations or violations of which the state and its agencies are a party, but limited violations have been detected, in which some of the small executive leaders were a party.
The Parliamentary Elections Observatory had monitored several incidents of violating the rules governing electoral advertising, including what was done by the candidate of the Attarin constituency in Alexandria, Queen Masoud, who took advantage of her membership in the Kom al-Dikka association and used children sponsored by the association in her electoral propaganda.
In Cairo, the mission observed that the candidate Rifat Taqawi was accompanying the head of the Helwan district during his tour in Helwan Square with a number of his supporters, and that the tour was used in his electoral propaganda.
In Menoufia, the mission spotted the Qam The candidate on behalf of Kalila to hold a series of meetings with citizens in a mosque in the village of "Mit Khalaf" after Friday prayers, taking advantage of the congregation of worshipers in the mosque, speaking on his own behalf and his election program.
In Minya, the mission monitored that the candidate Magda Kamel, from the Egypt Call list for the Upper Egypt sector, made field trips to the villages of Al-Mahras, Nazlet Grace and Minhari. The church, accompanied by the coordinator of the list, Dr. Tariq Zidan
The mission also observed in Kafr El-Sheikh that the candidate, Lamum Al-Aranj, announced the opening of his electoral headquarters in the village, after the afternoon prayer inside one of the village's mosques, and he also shook hands with the worshipers who called them to vote for him.
Within the framework of its continuous follow-up to the decisions of the Higher Committee for Elections, the joint local international mission followed up on the committee's announcement that elections will be held abroad with 136 embassies and consulates, and the committee also announced that every Egyptian residing abroad has the right to vote for the selection of candidates in his constituency whenever his name is registered in the voter database, and holds a card A national number indicating his address in Egypt or a valid passport, including the national number and his address in Egypt, and a declaration stating that he is residing abroad, and the Supreme Elections Committee announced that more than 60 foreign embassies in Egypt have requested the follow-up to the upcoming elections of the House of Representatives. The committee agreed to grant them permits to follow up. Embassies delivered next week.
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