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LEGISLATION WATCH- President Abdel Fattah El Sisi ratified on Monday a bill <\/strong>redrawing Egypt\u2019s electoral districts <\/strong>into 143 single-member constituencies across Egypt\u2019s 27 governorates, and four in which MPs are elected through party lists, Al Masry Al Youm<\/a> reports, carrying a copy of the bill as published in the Official Gazette on Thursday. The party list constituencies will include Cairo and the Middle and South Nile Delta, the North and Middle and South of Upper Egypt; the Eastern Nile Delta, and the Western Nile Delta and Alexandria. The draft law was approved by the House of Representatives<\/a> in August. House elections are set to be held in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LEGISLATION WATCH- President Abdel Fattah El Sisi ratified on Monday a bill redrawing Egypt\u2019s electoral districts into 143 single-member constituencies across Egypt\u2019s 27 governorates, and four in which MPs are elected through party lists, Al Masry Al Youm reports, carrying a copy of the bill as published in the Official Gazette on Thursday. 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