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The rerun, which covers 10 governorates and 58 seats, follows the Supreme Administrative Court's decision to void the results in these constituencies and instruct the National Elections Authority (NEA) to restart the process from the last valid procedural step.
NEA Executive Director Ahmed Bendari said voting is underway across 139 polling stations in 117 countries, each opening according to its local time.
Bendari said the NEA is fully implementing the court’s rulings, which stem from 30 judicial decisions that nullified the outcomes of the initial vote in constituencies across Giza, Beheira, Alexandria, Minya, Assiut, Sohag, Fayoum, the New Valley, Aswan, and Luxor.
The affected constituencies include major urban areas such as Giza, Dokki, First October, Al-Omraniya, and First Aswan, as well as rural constituencies in Upper Egypt and the Western Desert.
The rerun phase is taking place amid heightened legal scrutiny of the wider electoral process.
On Thursday, approximately 298 appeals were submitted to the Supreme Administrative Court of the State Council, challenging the results of the first round of the second phase of the 2025 House of Representatives elections.
This comes as part of the legally mandated window for reviewing challenges before the NEA proceeds to confirm final results.
On Tuesday, the NEA announced the outcome of the first round of the second phase, confirming the victory of the National Unified List for Egypt, a coalition comprising 12 political parties, in the list-based contests of that phase.
The announcement followed the NEA’s earlier publication of the first-phase results, which showed a voter turnout of 18 percent across 13 governorates and the outright victory of 40 individual candidates, including 21 in Cairo, before the Supreme Administrative Court issued its annulment rulings.
The NEA has set a specific timetable for the rerun of the 30 annulled constituencies: Egyptians abroad will vote on 8 and 9 December, followed by voting inside Egypt on 10 and 11 December.
The results of the first round will be announced on 18 December. The runoff will be held abroad on 31 December and 1 January, and in Egypt on 3 and 4 January, with final results to be announced on 10 January.
The NEA reaffirmed that the rerun is being conducted strictly in line with judicial directives, underscoring its commitment to safeguarding the integrity and transparency of the electoral process.
The rerun also follows a rare intervention by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, who wrote on his official social media accounts on 17 November, urging the NEA to thoroughly review all appeals related to alleged irregularities from the first round of voting.
El-Sisi said the NEA “must investigate the complaints raised” and “take the necessary measures to ensure the integrity of the electoral process,” adding that the authority should not hesitate to cancel results in any district where the will of voters cannot be clearly established.
His remarks came amid growing reports of procedural disputes in several constituencies and triggered a wave of legal challenges.
The president stressed that the NEA should “reveal the true will of the voters” and ensure that candidate agents receive copies of vote-count forms to prevent discrepancies, comments widely seen as support for stricter oversight measures.
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