The Government of Egypt remained until election

President Of Egypt Muhammad Mursi (REUTERS/Egyptian Presidency)

There is no change of the Cabinet to the legislative elections, "

Cairo (Reuters)-Egypt's Cabinet Spokesman Alaa Al-Hadidi dismissed the opposition's insistence for the dissolution of the Government led by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil.

"There is no change of the Cabinet to the legislative elections," said Al Hadidi was quoted as saying Egypt's MENA News Agency, on Wednesday.

He said the PM and Cabinet Member ranks Qandil Middle running his State duties as normal regardless of the rumors of that sort.

"All the rumours concerning the resignation of the Government were totally untrue and unfounded," he said asserted.

According to him, President Mohamed Moursi always give appreciation of the work of the Government in the midst of difficulties facing the nation.

However, Al Hadidi admitted that the opposition has submitted a proposal to the President to dissolve the Government Moursi and replaced with a Cabinet of national unity Government to be called. "

However, he said, the President rejected a proposal to Government dissolution Moursi.

In the meantime, the legislative elections set to be held on April 22, 2013 suspended until the time which is yet to be determined.

The suspension of the Election Commission had done it was decided following the decision of The State Court's ruling regarding the election schedule of the President.

The courts assess the presidential decree that does not comply with the Constitution because it is based on the new law which has not been confirmed by the Supreme Court.

The opposition boycotted the election schedule it warmly welcomed the decision of the Court.

The President also expressed respect Moursi court decisions The countries.
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US urges Cambodia to allow the opposition follow election

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The credibility of Cambodia's general election will be judged from what political opposition groups be allowed to participate in full and fair. "

Phnom Penh (Reuters)-the United States on Tuesday urged Cambodia to allow opposition leader who is being ostracized, the Sam Rainsy Party of, to compete in the general election this year.

"The credibility of Cambodia's general election will be judged from what political opposition groups be allowed to participate fully and fairly," said United States Deputy Secretary of State for democracy and human rights workers, Michael Posner, the AFP report.

"The Government should take real steps to ensure that all political participants--who represent different views--can compete honestly in July elections, including Sam Rainsy Party of," he said.

The Sam Rainsy Party of, which is the main opponent is graded Prime Minister HunSen, currently living in France to avoid jail on a series of verdicts that are assessed by observers based on political motivation.

Leaders of the opposition groups that is a National Rescue Party Chairman of Cambodia, which was formed last year to challenge the power of Hun Sen who has endured for 28 years.

Posner said that the elections in July, "will test the Government's commitment to support multi-party democracy".

The Sam Rainsy Party of, 63, will be jailed for a total of 11 years when he returned to his country.

He terminated 10 years in prison for "in absentia" on 2010 top broadcasting map border with Viet Nam. The verdict was later reduced to seven years.

Rainsy Party of then convicted on the two cases are different, the one relating to the border of Viet Nam and the other because it had accused the Minister of Foreign Affairs as a member of the Khmer Rouge regime which is brutal at the end of the 1970s.

In November, the General Election Committee of Cambodia's Sam Rainsy Party of announced that it could not be a candidate in the elections because of the legal issues involved.

The Government insisted that Rainsy Party of having to undergo a punishment in prison.

Hun Sen (62) currently has led Cambodia since 1985, and pledged to remain in Office until he was 90.

In the last parliamentary elections in 2008, the political vehicle of Hun Sen, the Cambodian people's Party, managed to seize 90 of 123 seats in the National Assembly. (G005/RN)

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The first Mufti of Egypt appointed through election of scholars

Cairo (Reuters)-the great Al Azhar Grand Sheikh Prof Dr Ahmed Al Tayeb on Monday presided over the election of a national who was a Mufti was first in the history of modern Egypt Rapture a passing vote of cleric mufti.

Prof Dr Mohammed Shawki Ibrahim Abdul Karim won the most votes as National Mufti replaces Prof. Dr. Sheikh Ali Goumah whose term of duty expires this month, says Prof. Tayeb.

Sheikh Ali Gouma had previously appointed by President Hosni Mubarak and then extended by one year by the High Military Council that came to power while when Mubarak resigned on February 11, 2011.

Election results will be presented to the cleric President Mohamed Moursi in order to set out in presidential decree as National Mufti for four years of service.

During this time, the Mufti appointed by Presidents usually without asking for consideration of the scholars.

"The appointment of Muftis by the selection of scholars is the positive impact of the revolution, January 25, 2011," said social observer, Mohamed Sabri.

Scholars who have voting rights in the determination of Mufri is a member of The Al Azhar Ulama or "Haiah Kibarul Al Azhar Cleric".

Before the election, the charismatic cleric was set a condition that the candidate was a Mufti Professor in the field of Islamic law, eloquently berbasa United Kingdom and knowledgeable as well as under the age of 60 years.

The position of Mufti of the National lead Institution and issuing fatwas or Darul Fatwa equal of Prime Minister give opinions or advice to the Government on religious issues, particularly Islam.

In addition to setting the major holidays of Islam such as Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the Mufti was also authorized to reject or approve any death sentence laid down the Court.

Sheikh Al-Shawki is currently Chairman of the Department of Comparative School at Al Azhar University branch of Tanta, 90 km north of Cairo. (/M043 M014)

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Italy's Berlusconi says government solid, no early election

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Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi talks to the media as he leaves a euro zone leaders summit in Brussels October 27, 2011.

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ROME | Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:05am EDT

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi repeated Friday that his center-right coalition, which has come close to falling apart over policy differences, would see out its term until 2013 and that his alliance with the Northern League party was solid.

Speaking on his own Canale 5 television station, he ruled out any broad-based government of national unity, which he said would create paralysis for Italy and said an election campaign in the middle of the crisis would be seriously damaging.

"The important thing is to maintain a cohesive majority and government to pass reforms," he said.

The comments came days after Northern League leader Umberto Bossi said there was a serious risk the government could fall over proposals to raise the pension age as part of reforms demanded by the European Union.

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Huge turnout in Tunisia's Arab Spring election

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1 of 10. Voter display stained fingers to the photographer after they cast ballots at a polling station in Tunis October 23, 2011.

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TUNIS | Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:18pm EDT

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisians turned out in huge numbers to vote in the country's first free election on Sunday, 10 months after Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in a protest that started the Arab Spring uprisings.

The leader of an Islamist party predicted to win the biggest share of the vote was heckled outside a polling station by people shouting "terrorist", highlighting tensions between Islamists and secularists being felt across the Arab world.

The suicide of vegetable peddler Bouazizi, prompted by despair over poverty and government repression, provoked mass protests which forced President Zine al-Abidine to flee Tunisia. This in turn inspired uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain.

Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the moderately Islamist Ennahda party, took his place in the queue outside a polling station in the El Menzah 6 district of the capital.

"This is an historic day," he said, accompanied by his wife and daughter, both wearing Islamic headscarves, or hijabs. "Tunisia was born today. The Arab Spring was born today."

As he emerged from the polling station, about a dozen people shouted at him: "Degage", French for "Go away", and "You are a terrorist and an assassin! Go back to London!"

Ghannouchi, who spent 22 years in exile in Britain, has associated his party with the moderate Islamism of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. He has said he will not try to impose Muslim values on society.

In Tunisia, ideas about Islam, and restrictions on things like alcohol, are more relaxed than in many Arab countries.

"This morning I voted for Ennahda and this evening I am going to drink a few beers," said Makram, a young man from the working class Ettadamen neighbourhood of Tunis.

Nevertheless, the party's rise worries secularists who believe the liberal traditions in Tunisia , a former French colony, are now under threat.

Across the country, queues stretching hundreds of metres formed outside polling stations from early in the morning for an election which could set the template for other Middle Eastern states emerging from the Arab Spring.

"Out of the 4.1 million people registered, more than 90 percent voted," said Boubaker Ben Thaber, Secretary-General of the independent commission that organized the vote.

That level of voter interest was never seen during Ben Ali's rule. Then, only a trickle of people turned out for elections because they knew the result was predetermined.

"This is the first time I have voted," said Karima Ben Salem, 45, at a polling station in the Lafayette area of Tunis.

"I've asked the boys to make their own lunch. I don't care ... Today I am not on duty. Or rather, I am on duty for my country," she said.

ISLAMIST INFLUENCE

Sunday's vote is for an assembly that will draft a new constitution to replace the one Ben Ali manipulated to entrench his power. It will also appoint an interim government and set elections for a new president and parliament.

Election officials say they will spend Sunday night counting the ballot papers, and are unlikely to release preliminary results until Monday.

Most forecasts are that Ennahda will not have enough seats for a majority in the assembly, forcing it to seek a coalition which will dilute its influence. Secularist parties will try to form a coalition to stop Ennahda forming a majority.

Ennahda has been at pains to assuage the concerns of secularists and Western powers. Yet observers say there is tension inside the party between Ghannouchi's moderate line and more vehement Islamists among the rank and file.

A final election rally on Friday illustrated the party's contradictions as Suad Abdel-Rahim, a tall, glamorous female Ennahda candidate who does not wear a veil, addressed the crowd.

But many books on sale on the fringes of the rally were by writers who belong to the strict Salafist branch of Islam. They believe women should be segregated from men in public and that elections are un-Islamic.

"I'm not so optimistic about the result of the vote," said Ziyed Tijiani, a 26-year-old architect who had just cast his vote. His forefinger was stained with the blue ink used in polling stations to stop ballot fraud.

"I think the Islamists could win. It's not want I want. They may try to change the way I live," he said, accompanied by a young woman in jeans and T-shirt.

An Ennahda victory would be the first such success in the Arab world since Hamas won a 2006 Palestinian vote. Islamists won a 1991 election in Algeria, Tunisia's neighbor. The army annulled the result, provoking years of conflict.

Ennahda's fortunes may have a bearing on Egyptian elections set for next month in which the Muslim Brotherhood, an ideological ally, also hopes to emerge strongest.

Tunisia's election will be watched too in neighboring Libya, which plans elections next year after a bloody revolt ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

Tunisian election officials say they are unlikely to release preliminary results until Monday.

Tim Pawlenty, former governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota, was part of a delegation observing the vote from the International Republican Institute.

"The turnout seems to be good. The process has been orderly so far but it is too early to make any final conclusions," he told Reuters.

He said at one voting precinct he asked a man if Tunisia had left enough time to prepare for the election. "He paused, looked at me and said: 'Yes, I had 30 years preparation for this'," Pawlenty said.

(Additional reporting by Andrew Hammond in Sidi Bouzid and Abdelaziz Boumzar, Mohamed Argoubi and Warda Al-Jawahiry in Tunis; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Andrew Roche)

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Special Election Results: Troubling, But Not Apocalyptic for Dems

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Someone trying to use special election results to gauge the national mood could be forgiven for being a bit baffled. In November of 2009, Bill Owens unexpectedly nabbed the New York 23rd District, which had traditionally been Republican, in the special election to replace John McHugh, who resigned to become Secretary of the Army. While the race signalled the growing influence of Tea Party-style candidates — the conservative vote was divided between third-party candidate Doug Hoffman and the GOP nominee, Dede Scozzafava, who eventually withdrew from the race — it failed to signal the Republican wave which would stun Washington a year later. But even after the 2010 drubbing, Democrats continued their upstate success with an unexpected win in the New York 26th District in May, where the Republicans' Medicare plan played a crucial role. That seemed to signal a turnaround for Obama and the Democrats, but any hopes of that were dashed Tuesday night after the party lost two special elections in New York City and Nevada.

The Special Election for Nevada's 2nd District, in which Republican Mark Amodei defeated Democrat Kate Marshall, may represent a more obvious win for the GOP. The vast district includes most of the state, geographically, including its second-biggest city, Reno. It was previously represented by a Republican, although in the 2008 presidential race votes were split between Obama and GOP nominee John McCain. But the Democrats failure to keep Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat, after he resigned following an online sex scandal, stunned political observers who expected the party to be able to hold onto the district which has stayed blue for decades. Republican challenger Bob Turner defeated Democratic State Assemblyman David Weprin by 54 to 46 percent.

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Democrats claimed the results were due to peculiarities and not the continued plummeting of Obama's approval rating. During a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, claimed it was hard to draw too much from a race which began with such "unusual circumstances" as the Weiner Twitter scandal. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who held the 9th District for 18 years, claimed that he's never heard it described as a bellwether, and that its strong Orthodox Jewish population makes it more conservative than most New York City districts. Schultz claimed that, despite Tuesday's losses, the true measure of Obama's strength heading into the 2012 election are polls showing that he does well when matched with the individual GOP contenders. That may be true, but most political scientists view approval rating as the best overall predictor of an election, and Obama's popularity seemed to be a deciding factor in the New York race, where 55 percent of voters disapproved of his performance, according to one poll.

One key fact stands out. In both races, the Republican nominees took pains to oppose Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, the deeply unpopular Republican proposal to convert the senior healthcare federal program into a voucher-based system. By defusing that as an issue, Turner and Amodei avoided being associated with Republicans in Congress, who are also troubled with low approval ratings. The results would seem to suggest that voters remain angry with both parties, but are generally more willing to support an outsider than a Democrat, which they view as immediately tied to the White House. That makes it hard to predict exactly how voters will exact their vengeance in 2012, a national race where the party machines will be doing their best to tie each candidate and incumbent with the positions of their parties. But while it's true that special election results have limited value as a way to predict the future, these results certainly still paint a troubling picture for the White House.

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  Police say they have now restored order after the protests Millions of Zambians have been voting in what is expected to be one of the country's most fiercely contested elections.

There have been delays and clashes in the capital, Lusaka but observers say the vote has been relatively smooth.
President Rupiah Banda is expected to face his strongest challenge from Michael Sata.
Since the last vote in 2008, an extra one million people have registered to vote - many young and unemployed.
Polls were due to close at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT), but the electoral commission said voting would be extended in polling stations that opened late.
Some 5.2 million people - the highest on record - are on the electoral register for these presidential, parliamentary and local elections.
High copper prices have boosted economic growth but many ordinary Zambians say they have not benefited.
Thousands of policemen have been deployed to prevent violence and the sale of axes and other potential weapons has been banned during the election period.
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So far, the reports we have is that everything is going in a peaceful manner, in a calm way”

End Quote Maria Muniz De Urquiza Chief EU election observer Mr Banda defeated Mr Sata by just 35,000 votes in the 2008 election, which sparked rioting by some opposition supporters in their urban strongholds.
A police spokeswoman said order had been restored on Tuesday afternoon following violence after reports that a man had been found with pre-marked ballot papers.
A truck delivering ballot papers was blocked from entering the densely-populated township of Kanyama and some of its materials grabbed and strewn across the street.
Election officials later denied the reports of pre-marked papers but admitted they were unsure how many ballots had been taken and whether they would be able to source more for that constituency.
Some of Mr Banda's advertising hoardings were set on fire.
Many people were also angry that polling stations opened late.
At least four people have been arrested, police say.
Fake nails and indelible ink
International election observers have also played down the reports of violence, saying incidents were isolated and short-lived.
Continue reading the main story Rupiah Banda, born 1937, Movement for Multiparty Democracy, known as "RB", popular in rural areas Michael Sata, born 1937, Patriotic Front, known as "King Cobra", popular in urban areas Eight other candidates"So far, the reports we have is that everything is going in a peaceful manner, in a calm way," Chief European Union election observer in Zambia Maria Muniz De Urquiza told the BBC.
The BBC's Mutuna Chanda in the capital, Lusaka, says the queues stretched for 2-3km in some of the polling stations he visited and overall voting across the country has been peaceful.
One woman told the BBC she was ordered to remove her false nails before she could vote as electoral officials said she would be able to take off the thumb nail which is being marked to indicate that people have cast their ballot.
But another voter, Zarino Geloo in Lusaka, posted on the social media site Facebook that she was allowed to vote with her nails: "The polling agent drew a ghastly black line of indelible ink under my beautifully done acrylic nails… urrggh ghastly but I have managed to get rid of it by putting my thumb in lime juice.
"No way is someone going to tell me to 'remove' my nails, do they know how much they cost?" she then told the BBC.
Crowds of youths chanting "We want change, we want change" greeted Mr Sata as he arrived to vote in Lusaka, Reuters news agency reports.
"If things are free and fair, we are very confident. What's most important is Zambians are very alert in this election," AFP quotes him as telling reporters after voting.
But Agnes Ngoma, 57, who has a farm near the capital, said Mr Banda's economic stewardship should be rewarded.
Some queues stretched for more than 2km
"I think the current government has performed very well, exceeded our expectations. There's a lot of infrastructure that's been built - roads, hospitals, schools. The economy is booming," she told AFP.
Mr Banda has campaigned on this platform - the economic growth largely spurred by Chinese investments and the government's decision to scrap a windfall tax of 25% on mining companies.
He urged Zambians to express their frustrations through the ballot box rather than on the streets. "Voting is louder than words," Reuters quotes him as saying after casting his ballot in near the town of Chipata, 600km (400 miles) east of Lusaka.
Mr Sata has promised to re-introduce the windfall mining tax and to promote policies that will bring greater benefit to poor people.
More than 60% of Zambians live on less than $2 a day.
On the eve of the vote police chief Francis Kabonde said his officers would arrest anyone carrying axes, machetes and other weapons.
The election commission spokesman Chris Akufuna said a "transparent system" was in place "where there will not be any space or chance for anyone to manipulate".
Eight other candidates are contesting the presidency.
Voters are also electing 150 members of parliament and more than 1,000 local councillors. The first results are expected late on Wednesday.

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Mexico's Pena Nieto confirms election bid

  Enrique Pena Nieto is eyeing the chance to govern the whole of Mexico There are still 10 months to go before Mexico's presidential election but if the opinion polls are correct, the man to beat is Enrique Pena Nieto.
Mr Pena Nieto, until last week the governor of the State of Mexico, put an end to months of speculation on Monday by announcing on Mexico's main television network, Televisa, that he wanted to be his party's candidate.
If he succeeds, it would mark a return to power after a gap of 12 years for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had governed Mexico for more than 70 years and became a byword for corruption and cronyism.
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Behind (Pena Nieto) are the old groups, the old factions within the PRI that are poised to govern the country as they always did”

End Quote Denise Dresser Political analyst Often described as Mexico's most handsome politician, the sleek and energetic Mr Pena Nieto, 45, has a wide lead in the opinion polls.
But his backstory is as much for the society pages as the political columns.
In January 2007 his wife suddenly died, leaving the governor a widowed father of three.
In November 2010, he married popular soap opera actress Angelica Rivera in what was described, perhaps inevitably, as a "fairytale wedding".
The fairtytale ending for Mr Pena Nieto's political career would be to clinch the PRI's nomination and win next July's election.
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Speaking to the BBC earlier this month at the governor's mansion in Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico, Mr Pena Nieto insisted his party had changed.
"The PRI has gone from being a party with a bad reputation... to one that has a creditable reputation today," Mr Pena Nieto said.
The couple's wedding got wide media coverage
He said the PRI had recovered because it had learned to compete against other political actors, unlike the long years of its rule when the next president would be hand-picked by the incumbent - a practice known as the "dedazo" or "pointing of the finger".
But Mr Pena Nieto's critics say the the PRI he represents is just more of the same old party that stalled democracy in Mexico during the 20th Century.
"The PRI has in Pena Nieto a handsome candidate, fresh-faced, who doesn't look like the vintage dinosaur of the PRI's past," says political analyst Denise Dresser.
But in many ways Mr Pena Nieto is just a front, she says.
"Behind him are the old groups, the old factions within the PRI that are poised to govern the country as they always did."
Mr Pena Nieto says his main credential for being elected is his successful governorship of Mexico State, the country's most populous state with 15 million people.
Personal and political criticism of him, Mr Pena Nieto says, comes from envious political opponents.
"They are terrified of the position the PRI has in the polls."
Continue reading the main story Manlio Fabio Beltrones (PRI): Lifelong party member and current Senate leader Josefina Vazquez Mota (PAN): Served as education minister 2006-2009; was party leader in lower houseErnesto Cordero (PAN): Finance minister 2009- 2010; close to President Calderon Santiago Creel (PAN): Interior minister under President Vicente Fox; failed to secure PAN nomination in 2005Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (PRD): Lost tight 2006 election to Mr Calderon; still calls himself Mexico's legitimate presidentMarcelo Ebrard (PRD): Mexico City Mayor since 2006; oversaw legalisation of abortions and gay marriage in the capitalHe was under scrutiny, he said, "because I'm the front-runner. No one cares who comes last".
The presidential election will take place as Mexico continues to confront the drug-related gang violence that has left some 40,000 dead since late 2006.
Increasing popular frustration and anger over the rising levels of violence have dented the popularity of current President Felipe Calderon and his National Action Party (PAN).
And that could be in the PRI's favour, says Ms Dresser.
"People seem to have a certain nostalgia for the past, to believe that a firm hand is needed to re-establish order in a country best by violence, crime and chaos."
Mr Pena Nieto recognises some achievements by the current government following its decision to tackle the drug cartels head-on but he says that, overall, the security strategy has not worked.
President Calderon's decision to deploy the army was "rushed and poorly planned", he said.
But he did not specify whether a President Pena Nieto would avoid using the army.
He said the PRI would have an "articulated strategy" that would focus on "the use of intelligence and not just force".
History lesson
Mr Pena's own state, while not the worst affected by violence, has seen a rise in killings and many of the drug barons arrested by the federal government have been captured in the territory.
The fight against the drug gangs has seen extra security forces being trained
The debate over security is likely to dominate the presidential campaign.
If - and it is still an if - Mr Pena Nieto is the PRI's choice, he will face a candidate from the PAN, possibly Josefina Vazquez Mota, who is bidding to be Mexico's first woman president, or Ernesto Cordero, until recently the finance minister.
For the left are two possible contenders: Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard and former presidential contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Mr Lopez Obrador has been scathing about Mr Pena Nieto.
"He's a meringue made by the Televisa chefs, he's got no substance," said Mr Lopez Obrador, referring to the media giant's widely perceived backing for Mr Pena Nieto.
But Mr Lopez Obrador perhaps offers a salutary lesson for the front-runner.
For months in the 2006 campaign Mr Lopez Obrador rode high in the polls but, after an aggressive campaign by his opponents, he narrowly lost to Mr Calderon.
And that is why many in Mexico believe the fairytale ending for Mr Pena Nieto cannot be taken for granted.

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Egypt election timetable proposed

  Many Egyptians have been pressing the military council on an election timetable Egypt's ruling military council has proposed the date of 21 November for the start of the first parliamentary elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, media say.A formal announcement is expected to be made next week.
The elections are likely to be held in three stages, so the process will take more than a month.
No date has been set for a presidential election, which is not expected to take place until March or April.
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Egyptian media quoted the election commission head, Abdel Moez Ibrahim, as saying voting for the lower house, the People's Assembly, would be in three stages, the first on 21 November and the last on 3 January.
Upper house elections would spread from 22 January to 4 March.
State news agency Mena quoted a source at the commission as saying the ruling council would fix the dates in a decree on 26 September.
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says the opposition will be hoping that these are the first fully free elections to be held after many decades of notoriously corrupt votes.
The opposition has been pressing the military to announce a timetable for the return of civilian rule.
Our correspondent says the long timescale for the presidential elections actually suits many of the new opposition movements, which say they need more time to get themselves organised.
But he says they will be looking closely at the details, to make sure that the system really does allow Egypt to evolve into a proper democracy.
Hosni Mubarak was ousted from his 30-year rule after protests this year and is on trial over the deaths of demonstrators and on corruption charges.
Separately on Sunday, former Tourism Minister Zoheir Garranah was jailed for three years for unlawfully issuing company licences.
Garranah is already serving a five-year term imposed in May for misusing public funds.

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