#local elections
Egyptian Streets reported at the beginning of April that local elections will be scheduled in Egypt for next year, but it has now emerged that they will in fact be held before the year is out. Local elections were last held in Egypt in 2008 under former President Hosni Mubarak, and following the 2011 revolution, local councils were dissolved. Government-appointed local officials have been managing local affairs since then, without oversight from elected councils. Elections were scheduled for the first…
