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H.E. Mr. Lachin Ibrahim Mohamed Suleiman Lachin,
Chairman, NEA

PArt i PArt ii
CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Official Name LEGISLATURE
Jumhuriyat Misr al- Arabiyah (Arab Republic of
Egypt) 1. Structure of National Legislature:
Unicameral
2. Government
Presidential Republic 2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
People’s Assembly (Majlis Al-Sha’b)
3. Head of State Designation
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (since 2014) 3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
nominated
4. Head of government Designation The parliament is made up of 596 seats, with 448
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly (since 2018) seats elected through the individual candidacy
system, 120 elected through winner-take-all par-
5. Capital ty lists (with quotas for youth, women, Christians,
Cario and workers) and 28 selected by the president.

6. Currency 4. Popular House
Egyptian Pound (EGP) Majlis Al-Sha’b

7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) 5. Type of Electoral System
Egyptian 99.7%, other 0.3% Proportional

8. Date of Independence PArt iii
28 February 1922 (from the UK)
ELECtorAL sYstEM
9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution
1971
(A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy
10. Language (s)
Arabic (official) 1. Name of the EMB(S)
The National Election Authority-NEA
11. Literacy Levels
Male: 66.6% Female: 43.6% Total: 55.2% 2. Website Address
www.elections.eg

3. Nature of EMB
Independent

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