The Socialist Popular Alliance Party observed delay and disruption at polling station in governorates with a Coptic majority, such as Giza and Qena.
In some districts with a majority of Coptic residents, polling stations were not opened until very late, while in other areas, the polling stations were opened only for 3 hours, at the end of the day.
Coptic voters were prevented from voting at a number of polling stations, under the pretext that they were not listed. They were allowed to vote only when they threatened to file police reports.
A citizen from Qena, who asked to remain anonymous fearing reprisals, said that a certain Mahmoud Nasrallah, a leader of an Islamic Group, called on citizens who oppose the constitution to leave the polling station to allow those agree on a constitution to vote because the polling station was overcrowded.
The source told MCN the Islamic Group’s leader held the noon prayer in the courtyard of the school located in an area inhabited by a Coptic majority.
Monitors of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information monitored incidents of Copts being prevented from voting by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
ONTV reporter in Suez said there was a sharp slowdown in voting procedures at a polling station in Al-Qalzam School, stressing that most voters listed there were Christians.
The reporter also noted “a severe intransigence of the judge towards them.
Hundreds of Copts in Abu Qurqas (Upper Egypt) protested in front of a polling station because the staff was hiding the registers holding their names in an attempt to prevent them from casting their votes.
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