By Hend Kortam, Aswat Masriya The turnout for voting abroad in the second phase of Egypt’s parliamentary elections is “expected” to be higher than that of the first phase held last month, said the head of the committee overseeing voting abroad. Voters headed to the polls on Saturday in the second and last phase of elections to choose members of the House of Representatives, in a poll that saw a low turnout in phase one. The head of the committee, who also serves as deputy foreign minister, Ambassador Hamdy Loza told a press conference that by 2 pm, more than 10,000 Egyptians abroad had voted. The number of Egyptians living abroad is estimated at 8 million. In the first phase of the elections, 30,531 people voted abroad, representing a mere 4.5 percent of over 680,000 potential voters. Some 1,800 of those votes were invalid. Loza said he hopes invalid votes would decrease in phase two considering the effort spent on clarifying the voting mechanism. Voting abroad in the second phase will run until tomorrow, Sunday, while round one of voting inside Egypt is set to start tomorrow for two days. The total…
More Than 10,000 Egyptians Abroad Vote in First Round of Phase Two of House Elections
November 21, 2015
