FILE: Wafd Party leader El-Sayyid El-BadawiCAIRO – 25 January 2018: Wafd Party leader El-Sayyid el-Badawi was chosen on Thursday by the party to run in the upcoming 2018 presidential election, media outlets reported.Badawi was chosen out of three party potential candidates; namely Hani Sarie el-din and MP Mohamed Fouad.The Wafd Party used to be one of Egypt’s most influential political parties for a period of time, especially from the end of World War I through to the 1930s. “Deleting his name from the voters’ database is a rectification of a mistake made by the administrative body to register his name in the voters’ database.”The exclusion also was based on official documents received from the Armed Forces, per a judicial ruling from the Cairo Court for the Urgent Matters to oblige the minister of defense to submit a certificate on Anan’s military status to the NEA. On January 23, Egyptian authorities have arrested the former army chief of staff over charges of “forgery” as he “illegally” announced his intention to run for the 2018 presidential election. Anan does not have a military permission terminating his service at the Armed Forces, according to a statement from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).Today also saw Egypt’s National Election Authority (NEA) denying allegations from lawyer Khaled Ali, who withdrew from the presidential race on Wednesday. Ali had described the election timeline as “unjust” and accused the authority of preventing him from receiving his endorsements signed by citizens.The NEA authority assured in a statement on Thursday that the election timeline was set in accordance with the 2014 constitution, which stipulates that “the procedures for electing the President of the Republic begin at least 120 days before the end of the presidential term.

Source: Egypt Today January 25, 2018 19:01 UTC