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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood achieves major gains in parliamentary elections
        

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s de facto largest opposition group, has achieved major gains in the first phase of the three-stage legislative elections officials said on Wednesday.

Out of the 133 parliamentary seats up for grabs in Tuesday’s run-o..

US envoy goes undercover to monitor Egypt elections

CAIRO — The US ambassador in Egypt disguised himself and visited a number of polling stations in central Cairo and Giza to have first-hand information about the voting atmosphere and environment, reports said yesterday. A team from the US Embassy was also going round covering most of the polling stations in the garden city and the ..

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood scoring high

The leading Islamic group is scoring high in Egypt’s legislative elections where, with only a third of polling completed, it has more than doubled its representation in parliament.

Initial results from Tuesday’s runoff polls show that the Muslim Brotherhood won 30 seats while the ruling National Democratic Party won 50 seats, the semi-offi..

Brotherhood gains in Egyptian poll
By William Wallis

The Muslim Brotherhood has reaffirmed its position as Egypt’s main opposition force, more than doubling its seats in parliament in the early stages of legislative elections in spite of independent reports of fraud by the ruling National Democratic party.

"We won 34 seats and we could have won even more had there not be..

Akef: Egyptians Approve the MB Methodology

By Muhammad el-Shreef

 The Supreme Guide of the Moslem Brotherhood, Muhammad Akef, emphasized that the result of the first stage of the parliamentary election, in which the MB win 34 seats, is unquestionable evidence for the growing popularity of the Moslem Brotherhood, its ideology of reform and its controversial slogan ’Islam is ..

Reality hits hard
Promises of a reformed People’s Assembly look further from reality than ever, writes Gamal Essam El-Din

If the results of the first round of parliamentary elections are anything to go by, the incoming assembly looks set to fall short of expectations that Egypt’s legislative branch might finally be more representative.

The clearest indication came in the ea..

Better the first time
Rights groups said violence, fraud and vote-buying marred Tuesday’s run-off elections. Gihan Shahine reports

What appeared to be the more positive aspects of the first round of the 9 November parliamentary polls were markedly diluted in Tuesday’s run-off elections in which 266 candidates battled for 133 parliamentary seats in 74 constituencies in eight governor..

The Second International Coptic Conference, convening this week in Washington, comes amid Egypt’s parliamentary elections and heightened American and international attention to the democratic advances in the Arab world’s most populous country. Often overlooked is the fact that Egypt’s population of nearly 75 million includes the Middle East’s largest Christian minority, over seven million, the ..

Akef urges country leading figures to give people hope that reform will happen
By Muhammad el-Shreef

The Supreme Guide of the Moslem Brotherhood, Muhammad Akef,  urges country leading figures to give people hope that reform will happen

In his weekly address, Akef tackled the critical epoch in which Egypt, Arabs, and Islamic countries live; in which nations..

Four MB candidates withdraw from elections

Ikhwan online 
 The Moslem Brotherhood in Dakahliya governorate decided to stand aside the candidacy of four of its nominees. This action is a sign of the MB cooperation, it is also taken by the MB Supreme Council which resolves to decrease the number of the Moslem Brotherhood nominees who to step aside for the favor of the candida..

Asharq al Awsat Interview with Former CIA Director James Woolsey

By Munir al-Mawari in Washington

(Q): There is a perception in the Arab world that the US has failed in Iraq. what are your thoughts on that?

(A) Nonsense. The Shia and the Kurds, which is 80% of the country, are having their portions of the country function reasonably well. The election January 30, wh..

Some dismiss him as a fundamentalist showman, but Amr Khaled has been styled as Islam’s antidote to Osama bin Laden. David Hardaker reports.

In a tiny house on the West Bank, a young Palestinian woman is jogging the length of her hallway and back. Again and again. The pain becomes unbearable. But she keeps going. Eventually she completes 2000 laps. Why? Because Amr has said so. He has c..

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The MB Condemns the US Aggression on Qa’m

 The Moslem Brotherhood denounces the US-led flagrant assaults on Iraqi towns, starting from Faloja to Qa’m, in which internationally banned weapons are used, which eradicate every sign of life. Such offensive aggression confirms that the US is an enemy of humanity thought i..

Justice Mahmoud Abu Al-Leil, Minister of Justice and Head of ٍSupreme Commission for Parliamentary Election 

On Wednesday October 11th 2005, Egypt has witnessed the first phase of parliamentary elections whose second round is to be held next Tuesday. The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) has recorded violations that have tarnished the election process. Examples are..

Mixed messages
Shaden Shehab takes stock of the first round of parliamentary elections

 
Among the abiding images of the first stage of the parliamentary elections were shocking scenes screened by Al-Jazeera and watched by an estimated 40 million viewers of people throwing benches and chairs at one another while a woman screamed "forgery". The footage was shot in a polli..

Egypt’s Brotherhood set for showdown
Ruling NDP likely to try and prevent further Islamist gains

CAIRO: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is set for a showdown with the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) in Sunday’s second round of parliamentary elections after making strong gains in the first phase.

Observers warned on Thursday that President Hosni Mubarak’s NDP ..

The brothers are coming...
The Muslim Brotherhood doubled their parliamentary seats in the elections’ first round alone, bringing concerns of what parliamentary debates will be like, and whethe..

Egypt’s Ruling Party Wins 112 Seats
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press Writer

Egypt’s ruling party won 112 seats in the first stage of the country’s parliamentary elections, or about 70 percent of those available, according to final results announced Thursday.

Announcing the results, Justice Minister Mahmoud Abu el-Leil also confirmed that the banned Muslim Brotherh..

The police prevent three Electoral Assemblies

In unconformity to election laws and the so-claimed police impartiality, the security bodies in Damiata, Port Said, and Suez governorates hindered three electoral gatherings, due to be held on Friday, and were meant to end the election campaigns of the MB nominees . Yet, other candidates were given permissions to arrange electoral meeti..

Egypt police arrest 200 Islamists

CAIRO (Reuters) -Egyptian police have arrested 200 Muslim Brotherhood activists hours before legislative elections on Sunday which the Islamist group is contesting, a leading Brotherhood member said.

Essam el-Erian told Reuters the activists detained overnight included representatives and supporters of Muslim Brotherhood candidates contesting 60..