Egypt’s National Elections Authority on Tuesday annulled the results in 19 constituencies across seven governorates over irregularities in the first phase of parliamentary elections.
Judge Hazem Badawi, the chairman of the authority, announced the decision one day after President Abdel Fattah El Sisi publicly called for an investigation into claims of vote-buying, ballot tampering and other violations.
The authority had found “substantial defects” that undermined the integrity of both the balloting and the vote count in the 19 districts where the results were annulled, Mr Badawi said at a press conference to announce the results of the first phase.
He cited failures such as candidates not receiving copies of official vote tallies, as required by law, and inconsistencies between tallies recorded at sub-committees and those compiled by general committ
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