Counselor Ihab Hemmat, head of the Fayoum Election Follow-up Committee, confirmed that the National Elections Authority was communicating with him to check on the progress of the electoral process, with the support of subcommittees Nos. 17 and 18 with reserve employees and advisors to withdraw voting polls, and bribes were seized from a person outside committees 8 and 9 at the Martyr Muhammad Hashem School.
Chairman of the Fayoum Elections Follow-up Committee: Electoral bribes were seized outside the Martyr Muhammad Hashem School
Judge Ahmed Bandari, Director of the Executive Authority of the National Elections Authority, said that he received 13 complaints from the parties, which were as follows: A complaint from the National Front Party about not opening committees at Abdel Hamid Radwan Secondary School in the Dar es Salaam district. The head of the follow-up committee was inquired about and he reported that work was regular, and a complaint from the Front Party about refusing the entry of delegates and agents for candidates into the committees of Qus Secondary School for Boys. Communication was made and it was found that there were 5 delegates, and a third complaint from the Front Party in Committee 32 in the Akhmim Center in Sohag about a shortage of voter list papers. These deficiencies were completed, and a fourth complaint from the party in Committee 34 of Al-Sawamaa Al-Sharq Primary School in Sohag closed the committee. In communication with the head of the committee, he reported regular work, the Justice Party’s complaint about the distribution of gunpowder and Shabrakhit balloons, and the incident was caught by the security forces, the Democratic Generation Party’s complaint about the presence of a tent for distributing bribes in Imbaba, a report was drawn up, and the Republican People’s Party’s complaint about the presence of electoral propaganda in front of the electoral headquarters, coordination was made with the administrative authority and it was removed, and the Justice Party’s complaint about disrupting Working within Committee No. 15 and communicating with the Chairman of the Committee reported regular work and a complaint from one of the news sites about the presence of a female candidate in the Imbaba district in Giza before Committee 37 claiming to direct voters to a specific candidate. The Chairman of the Committee was contacted and he decided regularly to work and that the complaint was not valid.
He explained that the complaints received from the governorates consisted of 18 complaints from Sohag, 18 others from Fayoum, 15 from Qena, and 12 complaints from governorates other than the runoff, confirming that 13 complaints were received from parties.
He added that 53 complaints were received throughout the day, 14 complaints of directing voters, 11 of them not allowing candidate representatives to be present inside the committees, 9 complaints of delaying the voting process, 7 complaints of overcrowding and overcrowding in the electoral committees, 7 complaints of electoral bribery, 3 complaints of inquiring about the electoral committees, and two complaints of not being included in the voter database, explaining that the age groups submitting the complaints varied between young people and the elderly, most of them males, and two complaints from females.
The National Elections Authority’s operations room, headed by Judge Ahmed Bandary, Director of the Authority’s executive body, held this evening its conference to follow up on the closure of committees after the end of voting on the first day in 19 canceled districts in 7 governorates and the runoff district in the Itsa Center in Fayoum Governorate.
Judge Ahmed Bandari affirmed at the beginning of the conference that on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which falls on December 3 of each year, the National Elections Authority extends its thanks to Egypt’s esteemed people of determination for their keenness to actively participate in the various electoral entitlements and for the remarkable participation of voters with disabilities witnessed and their great keenness to participate in the voting process in a way that inspires pride and pride in the face of these national scenes in all their details.
He added that this active participation of this capable group of Egyptians in the current House of Representatives elections reflects the success of the efforts undertaken by the Commission in cooperation with the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. The Commission reiterates that it spares no effort to make it easier for voters in general and for people with disabilities in particular to exercise their rights and participate effectively in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the law, and to truly involve them in the field of political action through elections.
