Aqeel: Decisive measures must be taken against those who use places of worship in the election campaign.

The Daily Message for the International-Local Mission to Observe the Parliamentary Elections

November 7, 2015

Aqeel: Decisive measures must be taken against those who use places of worship in the election campaign.

 

Ayman Aqil, the spokesperson for the joint local international mission, stated that the state must strongly stand against the candidates' use of houses of worship in promoting their electoral programs, especially since many of the second stage candidates used Friday prayers to promote their electoral programs in violation of the rules governing the electoral process, which we have observed in many From the circles.

The mission continued to monitor all the course of the electoral process, and yesterday witnessed the candidates continuing to organize conferences and election tours within their constituencies, and the prevailing feature was the use of places of worship in conjunction with the Friday prayers yesterday, as the mission monitored in the New Cairo district / Cairo governorate: New Cairo’s sheikhdom. The two candidates, Nasser Bayan, and Yasser Hassan, the candidate for the Al-Wafd Party, distributed their electoral programs as for the Al-Suwaidi Mosque in the third gathering after the Friday prayers by some children wearing T-shirts printed with a picture, a symbol, a number and the name of the candidate. The candidate, Amjad Youssef, distributed his electoral program in the Sharbatly Mosque

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In Port Said, the mission observed that the candidate, Suleiman Wahdan, of the Wafd Party, in the second constituency of the Suburbs and the South, ascending the pulpit of the Al-Jazar Villages and Al-Marahat villages in South Port Said after the completion of the Friday prayers and sermons in the worshipers calling for them to vote for valid from inside the mosque.

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In Damietta, the mission observed that the candidate Abdel Shafi Hamza, one of the men of Al-Azhar, wandered around the villages of Karam, Rizk and New Alexandria, calling on citizens to elect him as one of the scholars of Al-Azhar claiming that success means standing next to the Al-Azhar Foundation

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In Qalyubia, the mission monitored in the third constituency / Kafr Shukr District / Kafr Shukr Center / The Greater Facility Village / The candidate director, Khaled Youssef, “the symbol of the ship”, held an election conference in the village, in the presence of dozens of his supporters, then he conducted election tours in the streets of the village accompanied by his supporters.

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And in the fourth district: Burullus Center: the city of Baltim in Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, the mission observed that the candidate, Ahmed Kamal Attia, stood in front of the Mortada mosque, addressing the worshipers after they had finished performing the Friday prayers, inviting them to vote for valid in the upcoming elections.

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