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Wife of deceased Egyptian MP elected to husband's seat in Fayoum

Ahram Online , Monday 27 Jun 2016

MP Abeer El-Khouly won the two-day election by a margin of 729 votes

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Egyptian MP Abeer El-Khouly won her late husband's seat in Fayoum. (File photo: Reuters)

The wife of a deceased Egyptian MP was elected to her late husband's seat in Fayoum, the administrative committee that supervised the elections announced late Sunday.

Abeer El-Khouly, widow of late independent MP Mohamed Mostafa El-Khouly, was elected with 38,389 votes, 729 more than her competitor, in the run-off which took place on Saturday and Sunday.

A total of 81,917 people voted in the two-day parliamentary election as the Fayoum representative.

The late El-Khouly died two months ago, and elections for his seat took place on 14 and 15 June for Egyptians abroad and 15 and 16 June for voters in Egypt.

Run-offs, which officially decided the election, took place on 24 and 25 June abroad and 25 and 26 June in Egypt.

Egypt's 596-member parliament convened for its first session on 10 January. 

 

 

 
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