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Ashri Calls on Elections Commission to Facilitate Voting for Egyptians Abroad

Fighting to secure Egyptians’ right to vote from abroad, legal expert Mukhtar Ashri – of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing the FJP – urges the presidential committee supervising the whole electoral process to accept passports as evidence of nationality, as per relevant laws and regulations.

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Mukhtar Ashri, Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Freedom and Justice Party, expressed his hope that the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC) will do its full duty by making it easier for Egyptians abroad to cast their votes in the presidential elections that have just started.

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, Ashri further expressed surprise at attempts to influence the vote of Egyptians abroad by fabricating another crisis, restricting voting to holders of Egyptian national ID cards, instead of accepting valid Egyptian passports, too - in violation of article 4 of Decree-Law No. 130 for the year 2011.

SPEC is well aware that most Egyptians abroad do not hold Egyptian National I.D’s. Ashri asserted that there is no legal or practical justification for breaching the law.

Furthermore, the legal expert expressed hope that the electoral process abroad would go smoothly and reflect the integrity and transparency all Egyptians are looking for in the first presidential elections after the January 25 revolution.