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Hephaestion
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posted 21 November 2005 11:30 PM
quote: (Cairo) Continuing its unprecedented show of strength, official results Monday showed the Islamic-based Muslim Brotherhood had locked up about 25 per cent of the parliamentary seats decided after the second of three rounds of balloting, a result that was attributed both to dissatisfaction with the Mubarak regime and a signal of Egypt's increasing conservatism.
The final outcome, however, will almost certainly do nothing to reverse the ruling National Democratic Party's nearly quarter-century grip on power.
The Brotherhood, whose activities are still officially banned, held only 15 seats in the outgoing 454-seat People's Assembly, 10 of which are appointed by President Hosni Mubarak, 77.
But with one round of voting still to come, the group has taken 47 seats outright and sent 41 candidates to a second-round run-off on Saturday. In the third stage of voting, to be held Dec. 1, 136 seats remain to be decided.
Mubarak's NDP held a more than 80 per cent majority in the outgoing legislature, including so-called independent members who voted in lockstep with the government.
But after the first two stages of voting for the new parliament, the NDP and its allies had taken 124 seats or about 66 per cent of the decided seats. The remaining 10 per cent of decided seats in the legislature went to candidates from an assortment of parties independent from the government.
"The people are saying, 'We hate the ruling party, we hate the government and we will get anybody to rule us except you.' It is called voting to punish," said human rights advocate and elections monitor Negad el-Borai.
Ya learn something new every day -- I never knew Mubarak was with the NDP... [ 26 November 2005: Message edited by: Hephaestion ]
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Ghost of the Navigator
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posted 26 November 2005 09:20 PM
Too bad the NDP didn't get annihilated (Had it been an election rather than an "election", they would have.)/They NDP is too friendly to Washington, extremely homophobic, shows complete contempt for civil and political liberties, and has the gall to claim that they are a centre-left party. Islamism with an American face.
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