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First Round of Egyptian Voting Puts Islamists Out of Parliament
NYT ^ | Nov. 30, 2010 | ROBERT F. WORTH and MONA EL-NAGGAR

Posted on 11/30/2010 6:34:04 PM PST by fightinJAG

CAIRO — As the results of Egypt’s parliamentary elections trickled in Tuesday, no one was surprised that the governing party of President Hosni Mubarak won a huge victory. Nor were they surprised that the candidates of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s only sizable opposition, took a beating.

What did surprise some was the Brotherhood’s share of seats in the new Parliament: zero. The Brotherhood, an Islamist movement with 88 seats in the current body and a vast following among Egypt’s 83 million people, was reduced to political nonexistence, at least for the first round of voting. The handful of other opposition parties won only a sprinkling of seats.

“At least get creative in how you rig the elections,” said Hisham Kassem, a newspaper publisher and human rights advocate. “I was expecting a few more seats for the opposition.”

He added: “Nothing can stun me now.”

The numbers could change: 26 Brotherhood candidates will be in runoffs set for Sunday. But the Brotherhood and other opposition groups seemed to view the early results as a sign that the governing National Democratic Party, intent on tightening its grip ahead of next year’s presidential elections, was orchestrating a near monopoly in Parliament’s 518-member lower house.

The government shrugged off the accusations of fraud, saying that

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1 posted on 11/30/2010 6:34:06 PM PST by fightinJAG
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First Round of Egyptian Voting Puts Islamists Out of Parliament

Riots to follow.

2 posted on 11/30/2010 6:35:47 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: fightinJAG

WOW! Egypt is turning into an muslim country...I am literally shocked! The Burqas must have scared the CHIT outta the voters there!


3 posted on 11/30/2010 6:36:54 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: rdl6989

Ah, don’t worry. They’ll fix that. They’ll just kill all the non-Islamists and everything’ll be cool.


4 posted on 11/30/2010 6:39:08 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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