Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court of the State Council will begin Saturday adjudicating appeals submitted against the elections' results of the senate, the second chamber of the Egyptian Parliament.
The National Elections Authority (NEA) announced the final results of the elections, saying 74 individual seats of the 2020 Senate elections were settled; while 26 other seats will be in in the run-off round. The National Unified List won all the seats of the closed lists.
The Supreme Administrative Court then decides on the appeals submitted by the losing candidates and those running in the run-off round during a period of ten days from August 22 to 31. The final judgments are sent to the Elections Authority.
The run-off voting round for expats will be on September 6 and 7, while the voting process inside Egypt will be on September 8 and 9.
The Authority will announce the final results and publish them no later than September 16.
About 62 million Egyptian were entitled to vote during the elections of the Senate which consists of 300 members, 100 of whom were elected by a closed list system, 100 elected by an individual system, and 100 appointed by the President.
Head of the NEA Ibrahim Lashin announced the results of the first round of the elections which took place on August 9-10 for Egyptian expatriates and August 11-12 for Egyptians inside the country.
The NEA announced that a total of 8,959 million voters have cast their ballots and the participation rate reached 14.23 percent.
The Senate was revived as part of constitutional amendments approved in a national referendum in April last year. The Senate was dropped from the constitution in 2014.
The Senate studies and proposes what it sees as a tool to consolidate democracy, support national unity, social peace, the basic values of society, supreme values, rights, freedoms and public duties, and deepen and expand the democratic system, according to the Constitution.
