Cairo-- Egyptians returned to the polls on Tuesday for the second and final day of voting in the second phase of the 2025 House of Representatives elections, with 13 governorates completing their two-day balloting.

The day opened with heightened monitoring, intensified responses to reported violations, and praise from rights groups for the improvements implemented after the first phase, particularly following the presidential statement and swift actions by the National Elections Authority (NEA).

Multiple rights advocates and election observers said the second phase marked noticeable progress.

Speaking in a phone interview on ON TV's “Kalima Akhira”, Saeed Abdel-Hafiz, President of the Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development, said the second phase witnessed firm responses to irregularities, especially after the actions taken by the NEA following incidents in the first phase.

He noted that campaign materials had been cleared from the vicinity of polling stations and that authorities had blocked attempts to influence voters financially or morally.

He added that while minor violations such as illegal mobilization and attempts at vote-buying were detected, none affected the integrity of the process, stressing, “We have not reached perfection, but this is the case in every competitive election worldwide.”

Abdel-Hafiz, who also appeared in an earlier interview on Al-Hayah TV’s “Al-Hayah Al-Youm”, highlighted long-term structural improvements across recent electoral cycles, including the replacement of wooden ballot boxes with plastic ones, the elimination of violent incidents, especially in Upper Egypt, and the establishment of the NEA as the independent authority supervising elections instead of the Ministry of Interior.