Articles tagged with: lower house
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Thursday, 7 Mar, 2013
CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s controversial legislative elections, due to begin next month, have been postponed by a court ruling only two weeks after Egypt’s largest opposition coalition announced it would boycott them.
The elections for the lower house of Egypt’s parliament were originally scheduled to begin at the end of April and take place in four stages over two months. They have been delayed by the decision of Cairo’s Administrative Court to refer the electoral law under...
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Friday, 25 Nov, 2011
After nearly a week of the deadliest violence seen in Egypt since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak, calm has descended on Cairo – but one wonders for how long?
Some of the key issues dividing protesters and the military remain in place, most notably the refusal of the ruling generals to countenance any immediate transfer to a civilian authority.
As if to emphasise how far apart the two sides remain from one another, yesterday the army built a 7ft-high breezeblock wall in Moha...
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