Det ser (omsider) ud til, at militæret vil slække grebet en smule
Egypt’s ruling military council has proposed the date of 21 November for the start of the first parliamentary elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, media say according to BBC online Sunday.
The elections are likely to be held in three stages, so the process will take more than a month. No date has been set for a presidential election, which is not expected to take place until March or April.
The election commission head, Abdel Moez Ibrahim, said, that voting for the lower house, the People’s Assembly, would be in three stages, the first on 21 November and the last on 3 January. Upper house elections would spread from 22 January to 4 March.
The opposition will be hoping that these are the first fully free elections to be held after many decades of notoriously corrupt votes.
The opposition has been pressing the military to announce a timetable for the return of civilian rule.
The long timescale for the presidential elections actually suits many of the new opposition movements, which say they need more time to get themselves organised.
