According to HEC spokesperson Omar Marwan, voters include 13,257,507 women and 14,144,846 men.
Some 139 embassies and consulates abroad will serve the 700,000 Egyptians abroad who are registered to vote on October 17.
The HEC announced Saturday that ten satellite TV channels have violated electoral campaigning regulations, and that they will face penalties that will be announced soon.
The Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist party campaigning in Egypt's parliamentary elections, said it will have around 200 independents and fifteen party-based candidates running. The party has decided to focus on the West Delta and Cairo constituencies, rather than field candidates throughout the country, and has said it is focusing on providing services for citizens in its electoral campaign. The Nour Party also said it would support the For the Love of Egypt list in East Delta as it is the only candidate. Party leader Talaat Marzouk revealed that the protest and pretrial detention laws will be on the party's legislative agenda in the upcoming parliament.
Free Egyptians Party founder Naguib Sawiris said in a TV interview on Saturday that his party was not looking for a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections. He also added in his interview on CBC TV that his party was seeking to "defeat" poverty in Egypt using experiences and programs based on the German model in its economic program. The party is competing over 220 seats.
Meanwhile, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP) launched on Sunday a campaign warning voters of the dangers of electing to parliament members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and Hosni Mubarak's dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP). The party called for electing candidates who were not implicated in corruption.
The 'No to Religious Parties' campaign group announced it collected 1.25 million signatures Sunday. The group also said it would file a case against the twelve Egyptian political parties founded on religious bases. Finally, according to Al Masry Al Youm, a remarkable number of former army and police officers are running as independent public figures within the electoral lists competing for seats. The largest number of former generals can be found in the For the Love of Egypt list, which is led by retired army general Sameh Seif al-Yazal. [Ahram Online, 10/13/2015]
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