Egyptians will head to the polls on March 26th to 28th in the first round of a presidential election, National Elections Authority chief Lasheen Ibrahim said Monday (January 8th).
A second round will be held April 24th to 26th if required, AFP reported.
Ibrahim said the commission would accept applications from presidential hopefuls between January 20th and 29th.
"The provisional list of candidates and the numbers of their supporters will be published" in state-run newspapers Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar on January 31st, he said.
Egyptians living abroad are scheduled to cast their votes March 16th to 18th, and if a second round is held, they would vote again April 19th to 21st, he added.
The incumbent, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is widely expected to run for re-election.
