CAIRO – Egypt will hold a legislative election in September and will lift emergency laws before the vote, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said on Monday. Mamdouh Shaheen, a member of the military council, said a date for a presidential election had yet to be set. The legislative election date means parties that were crushed under Hosni Mubarak’s rule have some five months to prepare for the first free parliamentary polls in decades. The military council has ruled Egypt since Mubarak was toppled from power on Feb. 11. It plans to relinquish power to a civilian government once a presidential election is held. “Parliamentary elections will be in September,” Shaheen said.
