25-11-2024 01:44 PM Jerusalem Timing

Egypt to Elect New President by November

Egypt to Elect New President by November

Egypt’s transitional government declares Egypt will have new President by November

Egypt’s transitional military government announced on Wednesday that the country will have a new President by November.

The polls will be organized "within a month or two" of a parliamentary poll already timetabled for September, spokesman General Mamduh Shahin told reporters.
  
He made the announcement as he unveiled an amended constitution incorporating changes endorsed in a referendum earlier this month which marked the first popular vote since former President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.
 
Shahin also confirmed that a ban on religious parties inherited from the Mubarak-era constitution would remain in force.
  
Shahin already announced that a state of emergency in force almost continuously for the past 50 years would be lifted before the September parliamentary election.