Egypt is to hold parliamentary elections in three phases from November, just seven months after the regime of President Hosni Mubarak was toppled following a popular uprising.

Egypt is to hold parliamentary elections in three phases from November, just seven months after the regime of President Hosni Mubarak was toppled following a popular uprising.

The state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper said that quoted the head of the electoral committee Abdel Muiz Ibrahim as saying a senate election will follow on January 22.
"A proposed timetable is in place for parliamentary and senate elections, with the first stage of parliamentary elections starting on November 21," Ibrahim said adding that the three-stage election would end on January 3.

Al-Jazeera channel also reported that another member of the committee has said that these dates would be announced by the ruling military supreme council and not by the committee itself.

On Sunday, political parties would meet members of the ruling military council in order to discuss preparations for the elections.

The country's ruling military council has been under pressure to fix a precise date for the election it had promised to hold when it took over after Mubarak was forced to step down in February.
The last parliamentary election, in November 2010, was swept by the National Democratic Party, which a court dissolved after Mubarak was ousted from power.