CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW), Ambassador Mervat Tallawy called for appointing a female Vice-President when a new president is elected. Elections for Egypt’s top job begin on May 23-24 and if a runoff is needed will continue in June. She stressed that the value and status of women in society [...]
CAIRO: The Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) on Wednesday set out regulating media coverage of the presidential elections, on May 23-24, a run-off, if necessary, in mid-June. Under the rules, only journalists and media professionals with permits issued from the HPEC will be allowed access to polling stations. The statement was released to Bikyamasr.com by Egypt’s State [...]
CAIRO: The Deputy Chief of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Lt. General Samy Anan said the SCAF is currently discussing handing over power on May 24 if a presidential candidate wins in the first round of presidential elections. This came during the meeting held on Wednesday with a number of heads of [...]
CAIRO: The moderate Islamist Party, Wasat, announced on Sunday, its support to Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, whom is considered a moderate Islamist presidential candidate, after an internal party vote. The party said, in an official statement, “the vote resulted in electing Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh by 63 percent, compared to 23 percent of votes for [...]
CAIRO: Presidential candidate, Amr Moussa, former Secretary General of the Arab League, called on Sunday for allowing international monitoring of the upcoming presidential elections in Egypt, in order to maintain transparency and legitimacy in the upcoming elections. He also warned against prolonging the transitional period until the constitution is drafted, stressing that it would be [...]
CAIRO: Mohamed ElBaradei, former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the co-founder of the party, “The Constitution,” soon to be officially established, said that the party will include the majority of Egyptian people in its membership, pointing out that the number of the co-founding members of the party reached 5,000 members, hoping [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s State media will abide by impartial coverage of presidential elections, as was affirmed by Information Minister Ahmed Anis. In press statements Thursday, Anis said that a full, integrated plan has been drawn up to cover the upcoming elections on the TVs and radios. “Every presidential candidate will have equal access to the media,” [...]
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians flooded Tahrir Square this morning in protest against military rule and the disqualification of Islamist presidential candidates. Established opposition groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists, Liberals and 6 April Youth Movement, assert unprecedented unity in a common demand to bring down the rule of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF). [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) announced on Wednesday the basis of its rejection of the appeals made by the 10 candidates whom, have been disqualified in the upcoming presidential race. The HPEC said it has checked documents of the excluded candidates in full neutrality during the past two days and found nothing [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) under Counselor Farouq Sultan rejected on Tuesday all appeals by the 10 recently disqualified candidates in Egypt’s upcoming presidential elections. Sultan said that the HPEC listened to the defense of each candidate separately for three days, reviewed the notes that have been submitted and decided to exclude them. [...]
CAIRO: The presidential hopeful Dr. Abdul Moneim Abu El Fotoh has strongly denied the rumors claiming that he suffers from a heart disease. Social activists has claimed that Abu El Fotoh is currently suffering from a heart disease, which forces him to sleep while using an artificial respirator. However, the presidential hopeful has strongly denied the claims. [...]
CAIRO: Speculations discussing Ayman Nour’s political future has been clarified, as the lately disqualified presidential candidate have decided to join a “presidential coalition”. It was reported that a presidential coalition formed of one president and two vice presidents is likely to be formed soon. Reports predicted that Dr.Ayman Nour, Hamdeen Sabahi, along with Dr.Abdul Moneim [...]
CAIRO: Presidential hopeful Khaled Ali attacked the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces demands to draft the constitution before the upcoming presidential elections. There is no reason for the hurry to draft a constitution that won’t fit the people who sacrificed its best youth for the success of the revolution, said Ali in a [...]
CAIRO: Egyptian indexes ended its daily session on Tuesday dipping due to the current presidential elections controversy, which added doubts over a real transition to democracy EGX30, the main index, fell by 1.2 percent to 4,679 points, its lowest close in 10 weeks. “People in Egypt await the final verdict on who is eligible to [...]
CAIRO: In a press statement, presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi said that postponing the presidential elections for any reason is “totally unacceptable”. “There is a fixed timeline that has been announced for the handover of power to an elected president. Modifying this timeline would lead to a disaster”, Sabahi added. “The Egyptian people, who endured more [...]
The Egyptian Revolutionists Coalition said on Monday that the way intelligence man Omar Soliman was disqualified from the presidential race was “naive” and “aimed to fool the Egyptian people.” Sooliman, who headed the intelligence body for over a decade and was called “Israel’s child,” was barred from running for Egypt’s top job by the Supreme [...]
CAIRO: In an interview with Bikyamasr.com, Hassan Nafa’a, the professor of political science at Cairo University, asserted that it is too early to predict the results of the upcoming presidential elections, scheduled in May 23rd, 24th. “We cannot predict anything now. Not before the 26th of April.” Nafa’a told Bikya Masr Reporter. Moreover, Nafa’a said [...]
CAIRO: Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Chairman of the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has met with members of the SCAF’s advisory council, to discuss recent political developments. On the same day, Tantawi also met with the representatives of 19 political parties and several independent MPs. At the meeting, the advisory council proposed [...]
CAIRO: When CIA thought they killed Aymen al-Zawahiri in a bombing strike in 2002, and they want to make sure that he is the right person, they sent a request for the former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, a stalwart of the Mubarak regime, and asked him for a vial of blood from a brother of [...]
CAIRO: Salafist Sheikh, Mohamed Abdul Maqsod, criticized the attitude of the supporters of Sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, the presidential hopeful candidate. In an interview with Al- Hayat TV channel on Tuesday, he said that their attitude will “create a new tyrant,” adding that Abu Ismail should not be treated as a “savior president.” “I [...]
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