Posted on 12/01/2011 9:36:26 AM PST by ColdOne
Cairo (CNN) -- Results of the first round of voting from Egypt's historic election are being postponed, the country's military rulers said Thursday.
The announcement will come Friday or Saturday, said Amir Imam, spokesman for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
The first voting since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak took place Monday and Tuesday, the first in a multi-step process to pick members of the lower house of Parliament.
Those lawmakers will be tasked with drafting a new constitution.
Two Islamist parties, the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Noor Salafi, have claimed a lead in ballot counting, but officials are tight-lipped about any results.
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Interesting.
Perhaps the military trying to dilute the number of votes that Islamist and Salafist parties received in order to reduce their power in the upcoming parliament?
Hmmm........
Time will tell.
Very interesting.
Josef Stalin.............”I don’t care how they vote so long as we get to count the votes....hehehe.”
From another news story on this:
“Judges supervising the vote say near-final results show the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood taking up to 45 percent of the contested seats. This will likely give Islamist parties a majority.”
Congratulations President Obama.
What Obama’s ACORN hasn’t arrived yet to fix the ballots?
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