CAIRO: Candidate submissions for Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections have reached 5,693 individuals and 302 party lists, according to Judge Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of Egypt's Supreme Elections Committee. Ibrahim also said that 289 individual candidates and 74 party lists submitted their papers today. So far, 1,490 candidates and 127 party lists have been submitted for the Shura Council, or upper house of parliament. The remaining submissions are for the People's Assembly, or lower house. Egypt's 2011/2012 parliamentary elections are set to begin November 28 with the first round of elections for the People's Assembly. Elections for both houses are slated to take five months, in a total of six rounds of voting. It will be Egypt's first election since a popular uprising ousted the country's three-decade dictator and his regime earlier this year.
