Egyptian President Changes Parliamentary Election Date

CAIRO, February 24 (RIA Novosti) – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Saturday signed a decree to bring forward the start of the country’s parliamentary elections, whose first round in Cairo and four other provinces would now be held on April 22-23 instead of April 27-28, media reported. The information was announced by a presidential spokesman on his Facebook page on Saturday, UAE-based pan-Arab TV channel Al Arabiya reported. Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority members had criticized the election date proposed by Morsi earlier because some voting would then be held during their Easter holida…

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