The head of the Wafd Party's parliamentary bloc, Mohamed Hanafy Abul El-Enein, declared Saturday that he was going on hunger strike at a sit-in inside parliament protesting the "unfair" distribution of electoral districts as a consequence of the recently revised electoral law.
Egypt's current legislative body, the Shura Council, in which Abul-Enein represents the Wafd Party, approved the parliamentary elections law late Thursday, including the new distribution of electoral districts.
Civil forces earlier criticised the law's distribution of districts, arguing it arbitrarily decides that some districts are too big and others too small in a manner biased to the majority party.
The High Constitutional Court (HCC) stipulated in its report on the elections law that Egypt's electoral map must be redrawn to represent citizens in accordance with Article 113 of the new constitution, deeming the article distributing districts unconstitutional.
However, the HCC's input was ignored by the Shura Council which passed the law arguing it would take too much time to amend the article redrawing the electoral map and would delay parliamentary elections slated to kick off 27 April according to a recent presidential decision.
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