Sinai attacks will not delay Egypt’s parliamentary polls: Minister

Cairo : Egyptian Local Development Minister Adel Labib said Monday that the attacks in North Sinai will not delay the country’s parliamentary elections.

Last Friday, a series of deadly attacks carried out by militants in Sinai killed at least 30 Egyptian soldiers and wounded dozens. In the wake of the attack, Egypt declared a state of emergency in the Sinai Peninsula.

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The Egyptian official also told reporters that provincial elections would take place after the parliamentary poll, which would be held by the end of this year, Xinhua reported citing the state-owned daily Ahramonline.

The parliamentary vote is the third and last step in the political roadmap set after the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.