An Egyptian female MP for a Nile Delta constituency passed away in a car accident on Sunday, Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Amira Ibrahem, 35, who was a representative of Menoufiya’s Shebin Al-Koum district, north of Cairo, died when her car flipped over on a highway in South Sinai. She was on her way to take part in celebrations marking 150 years of parliamentary life in Egypt due on Sunday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
Her six and 12-year-old children were injured, one suffering brain haemorrhage and the other abrasions and bruises.
Under Egypt's parliamentary elections law, the House of Representatives and the country's election commission should call elections for her now-vacant seat within 60 days.
This is at least the fifth-time the parliament will have to hold a new vote for a vacant seat.
In July, the MP for the eastern Cairo suburb of Hadyek Al-Quba, Syed Farrag, died after suffering from health problems. He was a representative of the Masr Balady Party -- a member of the pro-government Support Egypt bloc.
In April, independent MP Mohamed Mostafa El-Khouly of a Fayoum constituency, passed away and his wife was elected to his seat two months later.
MP Sameh Seif El-Yazel, who was head of the pro-government Support Egypt bloc, died in the same month.
In March, elections were recalled for the seat of pro-government TV host Tawfil Okasha in Daqahliya governorate after he was dismissed from the chamber due to holding talks with Israel's envoy to Cairo at a dinner at his home.
