Sunday, November 29, 2020
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The Egyptian Coalition for Development and Human Rights issued a situation report on methods and ways to deal with the deaths of candidates who are running in the general or run-off elections or have announced their victory in the seats of the first round, which was repeated during the current elections, the most notable of which was the sudden death of Dr. Jamal Hajjaj, head of the Health Insurance Authority in Qalyubia governorate and the candidate winning a parliamentary seat for the District of Benha and Kafr Shukr (Al-Shaab Al-Gomhory Party) which left the door wide open to controversy and differences of positions on the legal way to address this situation and is it done Holding the runoff election between the next two candidates in the votes? In the absence of full membership by not being sworn in? Or are there complementary elections for the seat? In that case, is the candidacy limited to the contenders in the current round? Or does it open the door to running again for those who want to compete?
According to the numerical monitoring of deaths associated with potential deputies or candidates during the executive procedures of the general elections since the beginning of the 2020 Senate elections and to date there have been (13) deaths (two cases) during the 2020 Senate elections and (11) A case during the 2020 elections of the House of Representatives is divided between the individual system (9) cases and the list system (two cases), while at the provincial level, the cases were geographically distributed among (10) provinces of which (3) governorates where there were repeated deaths two times in each governorate (Al-Sharqiya, Cairo, Qalyubia) and the number of (7) governorates where the deaths of the candidates occurred once (Giza, Dakahlia, Menoufia, Assiut Beni Suef, Matrouh, Red Sea)
The paper included monitoring of deaths during the 2020 Senate and House of Representatives elections 2020, the nature and specificity of the death in each case, as well as an analysis of the legislation and legal texts of each case, from the 2014 Constitution to House Act 46 of 2014, the House regulations of Law No. 1 of 2016 and the decisions of the National Electoral Commission, where the paper included a legal division of those cases and interventions provided for in the national legislation for each case:
Deaths before the final names of candidates are announced
Deaths after the final names of candidates have been announced and before the voting process
Deaths during or before the voting process is announced
Deaths of candidates running in runoff
Deaths of candidates declared winners of the individual system
Deaths of candidates on the winning lists
The report tracked the practical and actual cases of each case with the statement of executive conduct followed by the National Authority for Dealing with the Situation in a monitoring aimed at facilitating knowledge and a clearer understanding of the procedures and behaviours of the electoral process.
