Egypt Signals Parliament Election to Be Held by March

Author:
wochit
Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
11 November 2014
Tags:
Egypt, Governance

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has told visiting U.S. businessmen that a parliamentary election will be held by March, his spokesman said on Tuesday, trying to reassure them that the delayed poll would not be put off indefinitely. Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012, when a court dissolved the democratically elected main chamber, reversing a major accomplishment of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak

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