Cairo: Egyptian parliamentary hopefuls can start registering for running in this spring’s elections on February 8, the election commission said on Thursday.
Campaigning for the two-stage polls will begin 18 days later, according to the judicial panel.
Eligible candidates contesting the first stage, scheduled for March 22-23, will be allowed to carry out their campaigns from February 26 to March 20.
Campaigns in the second stage of voting slated for April 26-27, will run for two weeks starting on April 3, the panel added.
The elections, to take place under full judicial supervision, marks the third and final milestone in a political roadmap announced by the army following its 2013 overthrow of Islamist president Mohammad Mursi. The polls will be conducted on the basis of a mixed system combining individual and party candidacies.
The new parliament will comprise 540 elected members and 27 others appointed by the president. It will be Egypt’s first legislature in more than two years.
In June 2012, days before Mursi took office, the Constitutional Court dissolved the parliament where his Islamist backers wielded the majority.
Last year, Egyptians endorsed a new constitution replacing a charter crafted by Islamists. In May 2014, former defence minister Abdul Fattah Al Sissi won presidential elections.