Receiving candidacy requests for elections of Egyptian Journalists' Union

The Egyptian Journalists' Union starts today to receive the candidacy requests for electing the chief and members of union's council. Requests will be accepted for five days.

The appeal will be approved between June 17 and 21 on the basis that the elections will be held on June 28. These elections are to witnesses strong competition between journalists following the governmental newspapers and magazines and the journalists related to independent and factional newspapers.

Ibrahim Nafea, the head of Al-Ahram's board of directors and chief editor, has ended the competition on the post of the chief due to the electional promises he presented to the young journalists.