Egypt begins voting to elect new parliament

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Polls opened in Egypt on Saturday for parliamentary elections that will stretch over several weeks and are set to be dominated by supporters of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Reuters reports. A first-round of voting will end on Sunday, with a second-round on Nov. 7-8. Run-offs will take place in late November and early December. The polls are being held with a new electoral law under which 50% of 568 contested seats will be allocated to pre-selected lists that take all the seats in an electoral area if they win a majority of votes. Opposition politicians say that lists led by pro-government parties are tightly vetted and hard to compete with. The remaining contested seats will be allocated to individual candidates, […]

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