Egypt House of Representatives spokesperson MP Salah Hasaballah said on Sunday that 536 MPs out of 596 members have given their recommendation for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to run for a second term in office. MPs at the House of Representatives raced to sign recommendations supporting the candidacy of Sisi since the National Elections Authority (NEA) announced the elections timetable earlier this month. The General Secretariat of the House of Representatives has allocated a hall to collect MPs’ signatures. Undersecretary of the House of Representatives Mahmoud al-Sherif was one of the parliamentarians who signed the nomination form for Sisi. He remarked that MPs are convinced the president has initiated a process of comprehensive reform and must be allowed to complete it.

Source: Egypt Independent January 21, 2018 12:11 UTC