There has been a large turnout on the last day of candidacy applications in Cairo for the upcoming parliamentary elections, with hundreds of list-based and individual candidates from various political parties submitting their papers.
Some parties submitted the same candidacy list for the elections of both the Shura Council and the People’s Assembly, the two houses of parliament.
There were 28 party lists and 1030 individual applications presented, including 18 individual runners from the Islamist trends.
Wafd Party candidate Tarek Sabbaq clashed with a representative of an NGO supervising the application process, when the latter insisted on looking at the party’s list.
“You are the party of remnants of the former regime,” the representative shouted at Sabbaq when he saw a former member of the dissolved National Democratic Party on the list.
The Egyptian Bloc and the Freedom Party also had candidates of the dissolved ruling party among their lists.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
