Final Day: Egypt 2025 Senate Elections

The 2025 Egyptian Senate elections have reached their final day, having formally begun on Monday, 4 August. From a pool of 428 candidates, Egyptians get to choose their representatives for the upcoming Senate session from 9 AM to 9 PM over the course of two days. With 8,286 polling stations nationwide, the elections are overseen by 9,500 judges, along with 2,500 girls.

Via the elections, the Nationwide Elections Authority (NEA) launched ballots in sign language and Braille to allow for additional accessibility for visually and hearing-impaired voters.

In Heliopolis, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi participated throughout the elections, casting his vote at a polling station.

Preliminary outcomes might be launched on 12 August, and if a runoff is essential, campaigning will resume the equivalent day, with appeals to be resolved by the Supreme Administrative Courtroom docket by 24 August.

Nonetheless, the elections have moreover been overshadowed by tragedy. The NEA reported that three people died on the first day of voting.

Among the many many deceased was the principal of a faculty in Abu Kabir, who handed away whereas on accountability, along with a female voter in Fayoum and a polling station secretary, every of whom suffered coronary coronary heart assaults, as confirmed by Ahmed Bendary, the NEA’s govt director.

Reinstated by the use of the 2019 constitutional referendum, Egypt’s Senate serves as a result of the upper dwelling of Parliament, altering the earlier Shura Council, which was dissolved in 2014.

Consisting of 300 members, the Senate is a combination of elected and appointed folks, with a minimal of 10 % of the seats reserved for women to ensure gender illustration.

Whereas it holds an advisory place barely than legislative vitality, the Senate contributes to shaping public protection and reviewing legal guidelines sooner than it reaches the House of Representatives.