The (Rakeb Ya Masry) campaign said a significant decrease in the spending on all means of election propaganda was noted during preparations for the first phase of parliamentary elections, Al Bawaba News reported Saturday. The decrease was a dominant feature in all districts giving a strong indicator that the electoral race might not be resolved in the first phase, especially after the number of candidates for individual seats has reached 11. This led to fragmentation of votes in the first round and the postponement to the run-off, which is the round that will qualify the most organized and relevant candidates to the people. Spokesman of the campaign, Mahmoud Badawi attributed the reduction of spending on the advertising campaign to the elections supervising committee's decision to put an explicit determinants of significance for the maintenance stipulated by law that sat a maximum spending on advertising, according to article 25 which stated that the maximum amount to be spent by each individual candidate is EGP500,000. He added that the spending in the run-off round is EGP200,000, as for the menus that include 15 seats there will be a maximum spending rate of EGP2,500,000, while the maximum spending rate in the run-off will be EGP1,000,000.
