2020 Egyptian parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Egypt in November 2020 to elect the House of Representatives.[1]

Date

The elections were initially expected to be held in April or May 2020.[2] President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ordered parliament to freeze its activities on 1 October 2019 and placed the National Security Agency (NSA) in charge of creating lists of candidates, with the rationale being that the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), which selected candidates in the previous election, had not done a satisfactory job.[3] The For the Love of Egypt list was closely associated with the GID.[4]

Parties

Many different figures, including Zyad Elelaimy, Hisham Fouad, Omar El-Shenety and Hossam Moanis, were arrested on 25 June 2019 on charges of "bringing down the state"; however, the people involved were part of an alliance called the Coalition of Hope that was considering contesting the parliamentary election.[5] Other organizations involved in the alliance included the Civil Democratic Movement.[6] One source indicated that the reason for the arrests was the unwillingness of the alliance to cooperate with the NSA.[3]

References

1. Staff writer (24 November 2019). "Parliament speaker: Legislative elections to be held in Nov. 2020". Egypt Today. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
2. "الطريق إلى مجلس الشيوخ يحتاج 3 قوانين.. تعرف عليها". اليوم السابع. 26 April 2019.
3. "A presidential directive to freeze Parliament". Mada Masr. 2019-10-01. Archived from the original on 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
4. "Anatomy of an election". Mada Masr. 14 March 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
5. "Arrests target political figures involved in new coalition to run in 2020 parliamentary elections". Mada Masr. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
6. "Egypt arrests 8, including ex-lawmaker and secular activists". Associated Press. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.