HOW DOES IT COMPARE TO BEFORE? Under Egypt's voting system in the 1990s and 2000s, seats were contested by a two-round system in two-member districts, and 10 were appointed by the president.

The more things change the more they remain the same. Reformist as the Constitution is meant to be, it unfortunately was left with one major problem: a presidential system of government.

Egyptians began casting their ballots Monday in Senate elections, marking the start of a two-day national vote in which over ...

Egyptians voted on Monday and Tuesday in the first free parliamentary election in decades after a popular uprising ended President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule in February.