CAIRO: Concerned authorities announced they finished their preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections, which will start its first phase on Monday November 28. Governor of Cairo Abdel Qawy Khaleifa said the governorate's institutes were the first to finish all preparations. Khaleifa added there were committees formed all over the district of Cairo. The committees were formed under the supervision of the governor's deputies in four regions, to prepare the electoral centers from inside and outside in coordination with all concerned authorities. Cairo checked the validity of the selected committees for the electoral process and provided cars and trucks to transfer the electoral boxes after the voting process. The governorate stressed on cleaning around the electoral headquarters and checking the validity of lighting poles around them because the possibility of continuing the voting process might stretch late into the evening. Cairo Security directorate is preparing voting boxes, cabins, phosphoric ink, opinion cards and writing tools. The governor added there were 42,000 employees at the cabinet, districts and the governorate of Cairo. They are all assigned to work as members under the supervision of judges, who are leading the sub-committees during the elections. There are about 6,810 sub-committees in Cairo. There are also special buses provided to facilitate the transfer of these employees to their electoral headquarters on time. It was mentioned the voters in Cairo are estimated at 6.86 million and they will choose 54 deputies, 18 of them chosen individually and 36 elected by the partisan lists.
