Egypt State Information Service (Cairo)

Egypt: Army Refuses to Let Mandatory Enrollment Evaders Run for Parliament

13 January 2013

The Defense Ministry completely refuses to let anyone who had dodged the compulsory military service to run for a parliament seat, Assistant to Defense Minister Mamdouh Shahin told the Shura Council Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee on Saturday 12/1/2012.

Completing the obligatory military conscription, a national security need, is a fundamental criterion to run for a parliament seat according to the ruling of the Supreme Constitutional and Administrative Courts," Shahin said.

No one can be a good representative of the people without the national honor of completing his military service, he added.

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