Egypt will hold a long-awaited parliamentary election, starting on October 18-19, the final step in a process to bring back democracy that critics say has been tainted by widespread repression.Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012 when a court dissolved the democratically elected main chamber, dominated by the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, reversing a major accomplishment of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.