The High Parliamentary Election Commission decided to call voters for the election of the House of Representatives on 31 December, said judicial commission sources.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified last Sunday the law demarcating constituencies, in accordance with where the next election of the House of Representatives and all its by-elections will be held. The law was published in an official bulliten on Monday evening.
The law divided the republic into 237 constituencies allocated for individual seats and four consituences allocated for party list seats; 420 of parliament seats will be comprised of independents and 120 for party-based candidates, said the sources.
The sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm on the condition ofanonymity that the commission so far plans to hold the election in three stages.
The commission held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the application of the law and the conditions to be applied to different categories of candidates.
Subcommittees for the High Parliamentary Election Commission in governorate elections have sent lists of names of workers at local councils and judicial bodies who would monitor the election, said judicial sources.
Medhat Idris, a spokesman for the commission, said the commission will not reach consensus until Tuesday afternoon, on the date of its next meeting.
An edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
