Potential candidates are allowed to submit their applications between January 20 and 29. The final list of candidates will be announced on February 24.Voting will take place for three days, starting March 26 domestically, while it will begin on March 16 for expats from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in each country’s local time. The winning candidate will be announced on April 2.According to Article 140 of the Egyptian constitution, electoral procedures should begin a minimum of 120 days before the end of the current presidential term, and the president-elect should be announced a minimum of 30 days before the end of the previous president’s term. He came to office in June 2014, beating socialist journalist Hamdeen Sabahi after the June 30 uprising that toppled former President Mohamed Morsi, a leader at the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.Annan and Mansour had declared they would run in the 2014 presidential election but did not. Ali ran against 12 candidates in the 2012 presidential election and came in seventh place in the first round, while the second round was only held among the top two, who were former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik and Morsi.

Source: Egypt Today January 22, 2018 18:45 UTC