Second election day was intense in Egypt

Euroradio reporter’s camera was about to be confiscated. But our reporter was allowed to keep it after two conversations. However, all the photos of military machines made in the morning were deleted.

New ballot boxes were brought to every election centre but  there were not enough of them and many old ballot boxes were unsealed and used.

Fingerprint ink for electors.

This 89-yera-old inhabitant of Port Said said to Euroradio: “I am happy to be still alive to witness this historic moment in Egypt!”

The judge of an election centre in Fatima Al-Zahra School says that he has spent the night at home regardless of the fact that he had to sleep in the election centre. “I sealed everything up: the ballot boxes, the doors and windows and went home to sleep”,  - he says.

The headmistress of the same school says that it is the first time she has voted because she has recently received a new passport with a national number.

Even policemen allowed to be photographed in the first elementary school.

However, the situation was becoming vague in the other election centres: at first they allowed us to enter and to photograph and interview them. However, they started refusing to do it in the evening – they did not allow cameras and we could not enter election centres anymore.
The general responsible for Port Said (by the way, he confessed to the Euroradio reporter that he had participated in manoeuvres in Minsk 5 years ago!) decided not to close election centres until 9 p.m. due to endless queues and the tension near election centres.

See the next report to find out how the last day of the first stage of the parliamentary elections ended in Egypt.