Voting for new parliament begins in Egypt

Egypt’s first parliamentary election since the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammad Morsi and the election a year later of the army general, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who removed him begins today, with the outcome likely to be a compliant legislature that will back, rather than challenge, the policies of the president.

An Egyptian woman walks past the entrance of a polling center, being guarded by army and police forces, before polls open during the first round of the parliamentary election in Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Arabic on the banner, center, reads, “Gamal Abdel Nasser High School for Girls.” (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

— AP contributed

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