CAIRO: Egypt will hold elections for a second parliamentary chamber on Aug 11-12, election commissioner Lasheen Ibrahim told a televised press conference on Saturday.
Members of the chamber, known as the Council of Senators, will be two-thirds elected by the public and the rest appointed by the president.
(Reporting by Nadine Awadalla and Ahmed Tolba, Editing by William Maclean) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))
