(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Polling stations in 14 Egyptian governorates have opened on Sunday morning to kick off voting in Egypt's last step of the road map; parliamentary elections.
Some 27,402,353 voters are registered to take part in the elections first round, (Ahram Online) reported.
The first stage will include 14 governorates: Giza, Fayoum, Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, New Valley, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Aswan, Red Sea, Beheira, Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh.
According to High Electoral Committee (HEC) spokesperson Omar Marawan, voters include 13,257,507 women and 14,144,846 men.
The first round will choose 226 MPs of a total of 596. There are 2,573 electoral candidates for the first round.
The stations are expected to close at 9 PM.
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