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EGYPT: Parliamentary elections begin amid cautious hopes for change

 
CAIRO, 10 November (IRIN) - The first round of Egyptian parliamentary elections kicked off on Wednesday, with polling stations opening to voters in eight governorates.

Coming in the wake of the country’s first-ever multi-candidate presidential elections, held in September, observers are calling the par..

Egypt Parliamentary Election a Test for Muslim Brotherhood
By Challiss McDonough

 
United opposition hope to loosen the grip that Mr. Mubarak’s National Democratic Party holds on parliament with 80 percent of seats
Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood is fielding more candidates than ever in the parliamentary election that starts Wednesday. The banned group cannot offici..

The Final Results of the Parliamentary Election

Ikhwan online  

The final official outcome of the first stage of the Egyptian parliamentary election, held on Nov.9th in eight governorates, is revealed. In this election, 1635 candidates, among them 36 women, contested for 164 parliament seats.

According to the official statistics, four..

The Initial Results Suggest Run-off Election

By Ahmad Mahmmud
The first phase of the parliamentary election comes to an end. Although the voting count does not start, some experts see that the run-off elections, in most of the districts of the 8 governorates, will be dominant outcome.

It is remarkable, according to accounts, that the National Democratic Party ..

Egyptians vote in parliamentary elections

CAIRO: Egyptians voted on Wednesday in the first stage of legislative elections expected to make only minor inroads in the domination of parliament by President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP). Some voters and witnesses reported skirmishes and electoral abuses in the first few hours after polls opened at 8 a.m. (0600 GMT), but o..

Contraventions Committed during Vote Counting

Ikhwan online
Many candidates of the Moslem Brotherhood, who will run for re-election, were about to win unless the infringements committed during voting and counting processes.

For instance, in Mazgona district, southern Giza governorate, the police besieged the counting commission. They also evacuated the residen..

  Mubarak’s party takes a cue from opposition 
By Michael Slackman The New York Times

 
 
CAIRO As voters weighed their choices in parliamentary elections that begin Wednesday, candidates strung banners across Cairo that often struck a theme similar to the one hanging in the neighborhood of Al Sayeda Zeinab: "If God supports you, then nobody can beat yo..

Egypt’s workers doubtful of election jobs pledges

CAIRO — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pinned his party’s campaign for this month’s parliamentary elections on pledges of jobs, but workers and analysts say privatisation might be undermining his plans for job creation.

A group of relatively young reformers in Mubarak’s National Democratic Party has overseen sales o..

80 Percent of Egypt Seats to Go to Run-Off

By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt’s ruling party secured the most seats in the first stage of parliamentary balloting, but the banned Muslim Brotherhood made its mark as well, sending 42 candidates to run-off elections.

Run-offs will be needed for about 80 percent of the 164 ..

Egypt announces partial results of first round of legislative elections
        

Egypt’s Electoral Commission on Thursday announced partial results of the first round of the three- stage parliamentary elections held on Wednesday in eight governorates.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party ( NDP) has command..

 
PRESS STATEMENT
INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE ON ELECTION MONITORING

Wednesday, November 9, 2005 11:00AM

Free, fair and transparent elections are the basis for any meaningful democracy. The Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (ICEM) has recruited, trained and is deploying a total of 5,000 observers from 16 NGOs to observe the voting process for the Parliamentary ..

Muslim Brotherhood Second in Egypt’s Polls

 By Inas Abdul Aziz, IOL Correspondent

(IslamOnline.net) – Over 80 percent of seats in the first phase of Egypt’s parliamentary polls will have to wait till the run-off round, to be held Tuesday, November 15, with semi-official results showing the largest opposition block of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) coming second to the ruling Natio..

Mubarak’s re-election lacks fairness, says Judges Club

CAIRO — The Egypt Judges Club (EJC) has said that the re-election of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during the September election lacks fairness, although the breaches recorded during the process did not reach the level where it can be said to have a significant influence on the election result.

President Mubarak (77), ..

Egypt police arrest 7 in Islamist election protest

CAIRO (Reuters) - Police arrested seven Egyptians taking part in a Muslim Brotherhood protest on Friday against what the Islamist opposition group says were rigged legislative elections, a police source said.

The banned but tolerated Brotherhood fielded some 50 candidates as independents in the first round of the elections on We..

Muslim Brotherhood plays double game in Egyptian poll 
Eva Haroun

THE Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt is making a concerted effort to gain a foothold in parliament in Cairo as the country votes in parliamentary elections.

Under domestic and international pressure, President Hosni Mubarak and the ruling National Democratic Party ha..

US democracy drive throws up dilemmas

President George W. Bush’s announcement in 2003 that the US would henceforth adopt "a forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East" was welcome. His reasoning that Washington’s cold war search for stability through support for anti-communist authoritarian regimes had only produced instability for the region and stoked popular resentment of the..

Mubarak Rival Loses Parliamentary Seat By JASPER MORTIMER, 
 
President Hosni Mubarak’s strongest challenger in the presidential race two months ago lost his parliamentary seat in an upset in the first round of Egypt’s legislative elections, according to initial returns Thursday.

Ayman Nour, a key mainstream opposition figure, was defeated Wednesday by a candidate of the..

Behaira Employs Vote in Cairo
The empolyes of Finance Ministry, in el-Behaira governorate, were moved to vote for the candidate of the National Democratic Party in Shobra district in Cairo, Butros Khaly. Furthermore, the empolyes were gives ready-marked ballots to be just cast in the polling boxes and to get the blank ballot papers with them, in return for 50 pounds per person.

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Dismay for US as elections benefit Islamists
By Guy Dinmore in Washington

Behind the Bush administration’s launch this weekend in Bahrain of a new push for democratic reform in the Middle East lies a fierce internal debate over the perceived risks of elections propelling Islamists rather than preferred secular liberals to power.

The as yet unknown outcome of the debate, poli..

Ruling party wins first round vote

EGYPT’S ruling National Democratic Party handily won the first round of voting in the country’s phased parliamentary elections, Justice Minister Mahmud Abuleil said overnight.

The NDP took 26 seats, while independents picked up only five.

Four of the five independents were candidates of the banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, the g..