Egypt takes first step towards elections

  • 12 years ago
In Egypt, registration closes in a few hours time for candidates in the first elections there since the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Cairo.
More than six thousand people have so far registered to run in the vote for a new upper and lower house of parliament. But as Jane Arraf reports from Cairo, there are fears that next month's open elections could be too open.

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