2020 Egyptian parliamentary election

The elections were initially expected to be held in April or May 2020.^[2] President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ordered parliament to freeze its activities on 1 October 2019^[3]

The final results will be announced by the National Elections Authority on 14 December 2020.

A total of 568 seats will be elected in a form of parallel voting; 284 of them will be elected using a two-round system in 142 constituencies and the other 284 will be elected using party lists in four constituencies.

Sisi placed the National Security Agency (NSA) in charge of creating lists of candidates, as the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) had not satisfactorily selected candidates in the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election.^[3] The For the Love of Egypt list, which ran in 2015, was closely associated with the GID.^[4]

One alliance that will contest the election, called the National Unified Coalition, includes the Nation's Future Party, New Wafd Party, the Homeland Defenders Party, Modern Egypt Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Republican People's Party, the Reform and Development Party, Tagammu Party, the Will of a Generation Party, the Egyptian Freedom Party, the Justice Party, and the Congress Party.^[5] Various parties on the list were "dissatisfied" with the amount of seats that were allocated; numerous members resigned from the Republican People's Party. There was dissension in the Wafd Party over whether the party should run as part of the list, with party head Bahaa El-Din Abu Shoka maintaining that the party would participate in the National List, which the party's supreme committee voted against. The Nation’s Future Party also witnessed turmoil and faced various resignations, including MP Mohamed Aboul Enein, who announced he would run as an independent.^[6]

Other lists include the Call of Egypt and the Sons of Egypt.^[7]

The Conservative Party stated that it would run an electoral list known as “the Choice”, which included the Union Party, headed by Hossam Badrawi, the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party, the Revolutionary Guards Party, and the Independent’s Coalition headed by Hisham Anani.

The Patriotic Current, which was announced in September by former governor of Alexandria, Tarek al-Mahdi, expected to take part in the election "with 25 parties",^[6] though the alliance was excluded from the election.^[8]

Many different figures, including former MP Zyad Elelaimy, Hisham Fouad, Omar El-Shenety and Hossam Moanis, were arrested on 25 June 2019 on charges of "bringing down the state"; however, the people involved were part of an alliance called the Coalition of Hope that was considering contesting the parliamentary election.^[9] Other organizations involved in the alliance included the Civil Democratic Movement.^[10] One source indicated that the reason for the arrests was the unwillingness of the alliance to cooperate with the NSA.^[3] They were subsequently convicted in 2021 and given prison sentences.^[11]

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