7:05 AM In Mansoura, witnesses watch thugs on motorcycles armed with chains, pocketknives and machetes leave from police station towards ballot stations.

Hours ahead of the scheduled parliamentary election polls the Egyptian High Elections Commission has failed to implement a court order to reinstate a number of opposition and independent candidates it

Egypt’s ruling NDP has filed complaints against 52 independent candidates in Sunday's parliamentary poll alleging they belong to an illegal organisation.

A few days before the 2010 legislative elections, the nation's Higher Administrative Courts issued a number of decisions that may change the electoral map in several districts. The court orders

Respectable democratic systems confident of their legitimacy and popularity compete fairly with different political powers to gain the confidence of the public and the popular will of the people, and

A report submitted by The Forum of Independent Human Rights NGOs on Egypt’s elections highlighted that it expected Egypt's parliamentary election later this month will be rigged because of severe

The High Elections Commission in Egypt announced the list of 5720 accepted parliamentary candidates who submitted applications from Wednesday through to Sunday. The total, which included 132 women, are expected

Egyptian security forces assaulted and beat campaigners of MB candidate for the Karmooz district Mahmoud Atia in Alexandria early Tuesday, during a confrontation which turned violent.

With the upcoming elections in Jordan widespread concern erupts about new methods of “vote buying” and other election deceitful tactics ahead of the polls.

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights, issued a report titled “Egyptian women between the anvil of political parties and the hammer of the quota,” which revealed an increased number of