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Police Lead Intimidation in Egypt’s Polls: Report

 
Police watch the back of NDP thugs. (Reuters)

 
By Samer Elatrash, IOL Correspondent

 Egyptian security agents directed machete and club wielding gangs in attacks against voters and supporters of opposition candidates in the second round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections, IslamOnline.net can r..

Muslim Brotherhood finds voice at the ballot box despite Mubarak crackdown

The Guardian,

Who’s afraid of the Brotherhood?
Amira Howeidy explores what the Muslim Brotherhood’s success at the polls really means

As a convoy of buses packed with supporters of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) approached the Damanhour polling station to allegedly swing the vote in favour of the NDP candidate a human chain brought the vehicles to a halt. Members of the Muslim Bro..

Bad day for the NDP
The ruling NDP took a beating in parliamentary elections at the hands of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

The results of the first round of the second stage of parliamentary elections produced more of the same for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP). Sunday’s poll covered nine governorates, with the NDP losing 47 seats of the 144..

An Egyptian Attorney judge accused authorities of vote-rigging in the ongoing general elections in Danamhour District.

Judge Dr. Noha al-Zeini, vice-president of the Administrative Supervision Board, said in a letter published on Thursday in the daily Al-Masri al-Yom newspaper, that she has witnessed the falsification of the results of the votes in the electoral constituency of Damanho..

Transcript: Interview with Ahmed Nazif

William Wallis, FT Cairo correspondent, interviewed Ahmed Nazif, Egypt’s prime minister about ongoing political and economic reforms during a month in which the country is electing a new parliament. An edited transcript appears below

Financial Times: Are these elections any different from past elections?

Ahmed Nazif: Well there ..

A different kind of fraternity
The Muslim Brotherhood seems to be gaining ground on university campuses as well. Mustafa El-Menshawy investigates

On the Cairo University campus, signs of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence are clear. The group’s slogan -- "Islam is the Solution" -- adorns posters hanging everywhere; in classrooms, Muslim Brotherhood students often recite the Qura..

Fracas on the seafront
Amira Howeidy witnesses Alexandria’s ferocious elections battle

Last Sunday Alexandria witnessed some of the worst scenes of violence in the parliamentary elections. Dozens of thugs allegedly associated with the ruling National Democratic Party’s (NDP) candidates attacked several polling stations across the nation were the first round of the second stage o..

Realism Wins

There are two conflicting moods or trends in the political scene of our Arab region, where Israel is geographically located. On one hand, there is the absentminded and Manichean mood for salvation, and on the other, the realist and co-existential disposition of negotiation. The victorious proponents of either trend will contribute to the history of the Arab..

Elections 2005
To what extent have Egypt’s parliamentary elections lived up to expectations, asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

The parliamentary elections have been marred, as usual, by allegations of gross irregularities, dashing hopes that this time around the Egyptian people would be given a chance to express their free will in a truly democratic process. Despite this, however, the resu..

Detentions on the Eve of Run-offs

On the eve of tomorrow’s run-offs, the alleged police’s neutrality comes to an end. 15 members of the Moslem Brotherhood in Alexandria, among them the spokesman of Alex Brotherhood, were taken into custody.

In addition, police arrested four of the Brotherhood’s members in Qina. In an action that meant to terrorize the supporters ..

The NDP Pays Thugs £500 a Day

We are informed that Ibrahem el-Gogory, the National Democratic Party’s candidate in el-Mansoura constituency, of the Nile Delta governorate Daqhliya, made a deal with a gang, by which each team of thugs is paid £500 daily, in return for intimidating the supporters of his competitor, the Moslem Brotherhood’s nominee, on the polling day of the third stage o..

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood claims 14 members detained in Alexandria
Police have detained 14 members of Egypt’s largest Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, during dawn raids on their houses in the country’s second-largest city, Alexandria, a group leader said on Friday.

Ali Abdel Fattah claimed the members were activists in the outlawed group’s election cam..

 Egypt’s Brotherhood takes centre stage
by Amira Howeidy in Cairo, Egypt

The Brotherhood’s slogan proclaims ’Islam is the solution’ 

A massive banner displayed in a Cairo district proclaims the phrase ’Islam is the solution’ above a small image of the Quran set between two crisscrossed medieval swords.

The banner, hoisted across a mai..

 
PRESS STATEMENT
INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE FOR ELECTION MONITORING
 
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON E-DAY VOTING AND COUNTING PROCESS FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

The Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (ICEM), a coalition of sixteen NGOs led by the Ibn Khaldun Center is deploying a total of 5,000 observers to monitor the votin..

Egyptian Judges Reveal Falsifying Results for NDP

 
Fiqi got only 8,606 votes, against his rival’s 24,611, but the NDP candidate won the "seat".

 
CAIRO, November 25, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Some 137 Egyptian judges have supported the written testimony of their fellow judge accusing authorities of "flagrant falsification" of election results, in favor of the rul..

A devilish plan to Defeat the Brotherhood’s Nominee

A devilish plan was made by the head state officials in Santa City, Qina to secure the success of the National Democratic Party’s nominee governorate, in tomorrow’s run-off.

The items of the plan are:
1-     The use of force to head off the turnout from casting votes.
2-     Hi..