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Brotherhood vies for seats in Egypt vote
WORLD BRIEFINGS
By Sharon Otterman
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

CAIRO - Most of the hand-painted campaign banners decorating the city’s squares for today’s first round of parliamentary elections urge voters to back the National Democratic Party (NDP), which has controlled Egypt’s legislature since 1978.
    But banners emblazo..

Follow-up to Contraventions in Nasser City

In the poll that located in Omar Makram School, some former prisoners, hired by the National Democratic Party, attempted to assault the agents of the Moslem Brotherhood nominee in Nasser City district, Makarm el-Derey.

In the voting station no.66, one of the supervisory judiciary commission marks all ballot papers for..

The MB Agents are Attacked in Shamma:

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The agents of the Moslem Brotherhood candidates, in Shama district, of Monofiya governorate, are prevented from attending the polling stations. The undersectary of the village mayor, Said Rashad, rips the proxy documents of those agents and attacks them. Then the agents of the MB nominees head to the village police station in order to ..

Guide to Egypt’s election
Egyptians begin voting on Wednesday in a three-stage election to the People’s Assembly, parliament’s lower house. The vote comes two months after the country’s first ever multi-candidate presidential election, won by veteran incumbent Hosni Mubarak.

The opposition is out in force, with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood contesting seats as independents. R..

50 Muslim Brotherhood candidates in Egyptian Parliamentary Polls 1st Phase

By Hussein Abd El Zaher

First round of  Egypt’s Parliamentary elections has kicked off early  this morning with 1635 different partisan and independent contenders contesting 164 seats in 82 constituencies. The polls are held in eight governorates, that’s, Cairo, Giza, Menofeya, Bani Suef, El Me..

Summary of the first report on the Parliamentary Elections 2005
Shadow Committee for Monitoring Election  ا
National Campaign for Monitoring Election
Civil Society Elections Monitoring Observatory

Three coalitions of human rights organizations have joined forces to monitor each of the three stages of the parliamentary elections for the purpose of documenti..

Akef Casts Vote and Charges the NDP with Ballot-rigging

Ikhwan online 

The Supreme Guide of the Moslem Brotherhood, Muhammad Akef, cast vote in a poll in Nasser City district, in which the Moslem Brotherhood has two candidates, Dr. Makarm el-Derey and Essam Mokhter. He was r warm-headedly received by the supporters of the MB. After voting, Akef spoke to the reporters who w..

Electoral Infringements in the Northern Cairo Districts

The electoral districts, in which the Moslem Brotherhood has nominees, witnessed ample of contraventions, which were committed by the National Democratic Party, some of them are ministers.

In the poll no.23, the electoral number of the Moslem Brotherhood’s nominee, Muhammad Mansor, was changed from 10 to..

Parliamentary elections kick off
Voters went to the polls Wednesday in Egypt’s most robustly contested parliamentary election in more than a half century, but no one expected the vote to produce more than a glancing blow to the lock on power held by President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party.

A record 5,000 candidates are on the ballot in the election which is spread..

High turnout, little violence, change face – if not outcome – of Egyptian vote

By Maggie Michael
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO, Egypt – Turnout was better than expected Wednesday, violence was sparse and the opposition Muslim Brotherhood – still officially banned – ran an active and open campaign in what many viewed as Egypt’s freest parliamentary vote.
Regardless, Presid..

Egypt opposition claims fraud in closely watched election
By William Wallis in Cairo

Egyptians voted on Wednesday in the first stage of elections for a parliament that could help determine the pace of change for years to come.

 
Political life in Egypt is slowly rising from the dead as President Hosni Mubarak, under pressure at home and from abroad, loosens some..

Turnout Better Than Expected in Egypt
Turnout Better Than Expected in Egyptian Election; Opposition Party, Though Banned, Runs Campaign
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - Turnout was better than expected Wednesday, violence was sparse and the opposition Muslim Brotherhood still officially banned ran an active and open campaign in what many viewed as Egypt’s freest..

Secular parties fail to set Egyptian poll campaign alight

By Amil Khan

Party officials say the National Front, which includes most of the significant secular opposition forces, aims to take up to half of the seats in parliament, but analysts say it is more likely to gain 20 to 25 seats in total

EGYPT’S late President Gamal Abdel Nasser inspired millions of Arabs but the..

In Egypt vote, Islamist influence grows

The Muslim Brotherhood is expected to triple its numbers in parliament in Wednesday’s poll.

By Charles Levinson | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

 In electoral districts throughout Egypt, campaign posters reading simply "Islam is the solution," urge voters to choose Muslim Brotherhood candidates for parliament ..

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood seizes increased freedom ahead of polls 
Islamist party shows political savvy as it campaigns to win support of poor
 
By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Election countdown

CAIRO: Under a pragmatically all-encompassing religious slogan - "Islam is the solution" - Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has demonstrated consummate political savv..

Limited irregularities reported in Egypt poll

Cairo - Local groups monitoring the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections Wednesday pointed to irregularities in the polling process but stressed their scope was limited.

Opposition representatives were much more virulent in their denunciation of what they described as widespread fraud by the ruling National Democratic Part..

The Election Results in Eastern Cairo Districts

Run-off election is the outcome of the districts in which no candidate got the majority of votes, in the first phase of the Egyptian parliamentary election, held on Nov. 9th, in eight governorates.

In Nasser City district, there will be run-off polls between the Moslem Brotherhood nominee, Dr. Makarm el-Darey, got 69..

Can We Do Business with Islamists?
By Martin Kramer
Mr. Kramer, author of Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle East Studies in America, is editor of the Middle East Quarterly.

Martin Kramer delivered these remarks on September 20, at an open briefing on Islamism and U.S. policy. He shared the podium with Alastair Crooke, founder of the Co..

State media gave Egypt ruling party up to 95% coverage

afrol News - The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has monitored Egyptian state controlled media during the election campaign. The result surprised even the monitors: Broadcasters and newspapers dedicated between 58 and 95 percent of their election coverage to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

C..