News Press release Reports

3rd Press release “Nearing the close of the elections & women’s votes for NDP female candidates”

One of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights monitors discovered in a polling station at a preparatory school for girls, Bani Mazar constituency, Mania governorate voting fraud in elections. One voter used her father’s name her father’s name, who died 20 years ago, in the election. Furthermore, his name is one who voted for the National Democratic
Party.

Cairo:

  • In the voting station of Chemistry Authority which has numbers 7‐ 12, committee 11 in Qasr El Nil constituency, female voters were not allowed to vote after 12:00 pm, and the location was closed.
  • In Misr El Qadima constituency, constituency 2 for quota, an NDP candidate attacked a party representative and slapped her to the extent that she fainted in the polling station.
  • In Abdeen constituency, voting procedures stopped in Nubar preparatory school due to altercations between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and thugs, when 50 people who did not belong to this constituency went to vote there. There was a thug in front of every door of classes in the school that had ballot boxes. Furthermore, all monitors were not allowed to enter.
  • In Fathia Baheeg school, Cairo, there is a collective voting of thugs supporting candidate of the party in Abdeen. They voted without voting cards, phosphoric ink, then they moved from the school to the commercial transactions committee to vote again for the NDP candidate.
  • In Muhammad Farid School in El Sayeda Zainab, the value of the electoral vote increased from 50 to 70 L.E. and fights broke out in front of the polling stations with NDP representatives because of money.

Qena:

  • ECWR received complaints from one of the candidates of people throwing Molotov bottles in front of the religious institute in Sanhoory district. Many voters were thus not able to vote.
  • Certain polling stations were closed from 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
  • In Qena, voting cards were filled for NDP candidate in committee 43‐ 48 in Bandr Qena.
  • In Qena, female voters were intimidated because streets near the polling stations were swarming with security forces.
  • In Qena, the stations opened late and began registering votes at 10 am. Later in the day, they were forging votes.

Fayoum:

  • In Sanores constituency, Al Shaheed School, thugs damaged the polling stations and broke the ballot boxes with huge sticks. They destroyed the school completely and the security forces did nothing to stop it.
  • The head of the polling station no. 7 in Al Shaheed School, in Al Fayoum, was attacked by NDP candidates.
  • In Samanhour polling station in Al Fayoum, female candidates’ representatives were attacked and all the representatives were beaten while they were protecting the boxes of polling stations no. 100, 101, 102, and 103.

Sharkia:

  • At Al Nahda Al Haditha School, voters were forced to vote for specific female candidates, and if the voter refused to vote for an NDP candidate, he was given another paper that could not be used to vote.

6th of October:

  • At polling station no. 37 in Al Badrasheen in the 6th of October governorate, many women banned a female voter from voting. They beat her and she had to go to the hospital.

Al Gharbia:

  • In Kafr Al Dawar, female thugs gathered in front of the committee of the agricultural department in Kafr Al Zayat constituency and were throwing stones at the supporters of Muslim Brotherhood candidates.
  • In Al Gahria School in Al Gharbia, many male and female voters went there to vote by the end of the Election Day.
  • At Al Shaheed Al Sokkary School for girls, committee no. 23, polling stations were closed for the favor of the National Democratic Party (forging of voted for the favor of NDP candidates), and representatives of the female candidates were banned from entering the polling stations.

Aswan:

  • In Aswan, in Idfo constituency, at Idfo School, votes were forged in favor of NDP and the electoral propaganda was displayed inside the polling station.
  • Hala Abul Sa’d, NDP female candidate (labor) in Kafr El Sheikh, withdrew from the elections.

Suez:

  • Male and female candidates submitted an administrative appeal to the Administrative Court in Suez to cancel the electoral process in the government. The court sentenced to stop the declaration of the results.
  • In Kasr El Nil constituency in Cairo, a group of nurses from Al Kasr Al Einy was transported together to a polling station to vote for NDP candidates.

Alexandria:

  • Al Wafd female candidates in Alexandria in Al Raml, at the constituency of School Colleges assured the existence of voting cards with voters in the Egyptian street, and also names are different from numbers of registering. Thus, all female candidates complained that the voting process was not transparent.

Dakahlia:

  • Polling stations were closed at Al Rawda School in Al Hadid square in Al Mansoura, for many votes were fraudulent as voters were forced to vote for NDP candidates.