The National Democratic Party (NDP) will hold its annual meeting on 9 November, informed sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm. The two-day meeting will announce the party's platform for the parliamentary elections slated for November. The source said the platform will be divided into two parts, one general and the other specific to each constituency. NDP candidates for the elections will participate in the annual meeting, which will be held after nominations are closed. The meeting will also be the launchpad for the party's media campaign. In other news, the party's secretariats across Egypt have started preparing their own conferences, which will be held over the coming days. The party will select 64 female candidates to run for quota seats, after the NDP decided that the candidates will not be chosen through electoral colleges. The same source added that the party's supreme authority has yet to review the names of candidates in the different constituencies, or to review whether the appropriate mechanisms and procedures were observed in the process. Translated from the Arabic Edition.
