CAIRO (Sputnik) – The two-day first phase of the vote across 14 of Egypt's 27 governorates will be followed by the second phase in the other 13 governorates next month.
Voting distribution allocates 448 seats to single-member constituencies and 120 seats to party lists with quotas for religious minorities and women. The remaining 28 lawmakers will be selected by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi.
In a televised address on Saturday, Sisi called on all citizens to take part in the vote.
Polling stations for nearly 600,000 Egyptians living abroad opened across 139 diplomatic missions on Saturday and will continue into Sunday.
Egypt's January 2014 constitution – adopted under a transitional roadmap following the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Mohamed Morsi a year earlier – envisions the upcoming elections as the last phase of the country's transitional period.
