CAIRO: In Zamalek, women popular committees were the ones helping the army and police bring order to Al-Qawmeya polling station, which saw more than 2,000 voters queued up at a time.
Yomna Khalil, a member of the popular committees standing at the polling station, said they were mainly organizing the way voters move into and out of the station.
“As you can see, Zamalek is made up of elderly people many of which are with disabilities, so we had to come here and take responsibility,” Khalil, in her late 20s, told Daily News Egypt.
According to the “female guards” members of the popular committee were on site even before the police, who arrived at around 10 am.
“We started organizing residents before police arrived and the voting process began,” she said.
Outside the polling stations stood several women organizing voters’ queues. As more parties began to promote for candidates, a group began touring polling stations to put an end to these violations.
