Voting begins in Egypt's historic elections

November 28, 2011 12:40

Voting has begun today in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising nine months ago.

The new parliament will choose a 100-member committee todraft a new constitution for the country as per the SCAF's (Supreme Council of Armed Forces) plan.

Elections are being held through a mixed system -- the individual candidate system and the closed party list system.

The ballot paper asks each voter to pass three votes: two for individual candidates split into professional and farmer/worker categories and one for a political grouping.

Many people have complained of the complexity of the system and the division of constituencies. Just ahead of polls, thousands of protesters occupied Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, the hub of the uprising that unseated Mubarak, demanding that the military council that replaced him hand power to a civilian government.

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