An Egyptian Youth voting during the parliamentary elections of 2025 in a voting station in Asyut Governorate, Egypt. Ahram.
Speaking by phone to MBC Masr’s Al-Hekaya programme late on Monday, Al-Wazir said the president had been closely tracking complaints, media reports, and online discussions about alleged irregularities.
“The president spoke to us yesterday and said with complete clarity, ‘I have no problem at all cancelling and rerunning all the elections’ if they do not accurately reflect the will of the Egyptian voter,” Al-Wazir said. He added that the issue had been “on the president’s mind for about three days” and that el-Sisi “leans toward transparency, candour and full disclosure”.
Al-Wazir said the president’s priority was ensuring that Egyptians “have the best possible parliament and the best possible choice, not falling short of any major democracy in the world.”
Elections authority reviewing complaints
During the same programme, National Elections Authority (NEA) Executive Director Ahmed Bandari said the authority’s board was in continuous session reviewing a full report on documented “incidents and violations” in several districts.
He said the complaints include allegations of voter direction by some political parties and numerical discrepancies between subcommittee tallies and general committee records submitted by candidates and their representatives.
Bandari outlined the NEA’s legal options: full invalidation, requiring re-polling the entire district, or partial invalidation, applicable to specific ballot boxes. A box may be voided without affecting the whole district if the irregularity does not change the outcome.
He cited the case of Alexandria’s Montaza district, where a supervising judge began counting early, as a “partial administrative error” that renders the box invalid but does not by itself indicate tampering. If excluding a problematic box changes a candidate’s ranking or affects qualification for a runoff, the election must be rerun for the whole district.
Possibility of wider rerun
Bandari confirmed that the NEA is also assessing the possibility—raised publicly by El-Sisi—of cancelling the entire individual-seats vote if discrepancies appear across subcommittee reports, general committee tallies and digital records.
“In such a case, intervention is required,” he said, noting that inconsistencies in official figures can invalidate the electoral process.
The NEA is expected to release its decisions alongside the announcement of first-phase results on Tuesday.
Election timeline
Egypt’s parliamentary elections are taking place in two phases. Overseas voting for the first phase was held on 7–8 November, with domestic voting on 10–11 November across 14 governorates, including Giza, Alexandria, Minya, Sohag, and Aswan.
The second phase will cover 13 governorates, including Cairo, with expatriate voting on 21–22 November and domestic polling on 24–25 November.
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