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Egypt’s ties with Israel bolster Islamist campaign  

 In Egypt’s textile heartland, popular support for the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in the parliamentary election has also fed off anti-Israeli sentiment since the government developed a trade agreement with the Jewish state.

Voters in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla prepare to return to the polls on Saturda..

Turmoil Grips Runoff Voting in Egypt

BEHEIRA, Egypt

 Egyptian police barricaded polls and  
arrested hundreds of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood
movement Saturday, while armed backers of Islamist and secular
politicians clashed - severely curbing turnout and scarring a
parliamentary runoff vote.
   &..

Egypt police battle young who say they want to vote

  
Egyptian riot police fought running battles in an Alexandria slum on Saturday with young men who said that security forces prevented opposition supporters from voting in parliamentary elections.

Some of the men said they waited to vote since the morning but lines of riot police prevented them from reaching the ..

Muslim Brotherhood cements its leadership of Egyptian opposition 
By Michael Slackman 
 

 
CAIRO The Muslim Brotherhood, an organization outlawed in Egypt, has demonstrated in recent parliamentary elections that it is by far the strongest opposition party in the country, winning enough seats in Parliament to dilute the governing party’s monopoly on powe..

191Brothers are Detained

 
 Arrest campaigns hit the six governorates which witness the third round of the Egyptian parliamentary vote, Khirat el-Shater, the  Muslim Brotherhood’s deputy leader , said: ’ when the governmental tactics of thuggery and blockade of voters, used in the first two stages of the polls failed , It resumed its old way of acting which is based on ..

Judges, Egyptian Gov. Clash Over Legislative Polls

 
The judges have repeatedly complained of election violence by police and NDP thugs.

 
Additional Reporting by Hamdy Al Husseini, IOL Correspondent

CAIRO, November 28, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Tensions are simmering between Egyptian judges and the government over the right to talk to ..

In the wake of the impressive gains achieved by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt ’s parliamentary elections and the fears of the Christian community from the resurgence of the Islamic group, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide Mohammed Mahdi Akef called for a national dialogue with leading Coptic figures. Speaking to Asharq al Awsat on Sunday, Akef indicated his willingness to discuss a number of im..

Egyptian vote could be bad news for U.S.

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For months, the Bush administration has said it is serious about pushing for democracy in the Middle East. It’s about to get a serious test of that resolve.

Egypt, the world’s most populous Arab country, is suddenly roiling with a wide-open, combative election that seems certain to end with the count..

CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood may be banned, but it has demonstrated in the latest parliamentary elections that it is by far the strongest Egyptian opposition group, trouncing the secular political opposition and weakening the governing party’s power monopoly.

Results released by the government on Sunday showed the Brotherhood winning 29 more seats in the runoff on Saturday for the sec..

Egyptian NGOs call for change in third round of elections

The NGOs involved in monitoring Egypt’s parliamentary elections have released a statement on the abuses that took place and made demands on how the third and final round should be held.

Two interesting recommendations stand out: they are asking President Mubarak to “announce his full responsibility” for the third rou..

Egyptian judges may be punished for speaking on election process

The higher judicial council of the Egyptian government asked the Egyptian attorney general Maher Abdul Wahid to open immediate investigation into judges who are talking in the mass media about violations that took place in the legislative elections, and accused them of "practicing politics" and thereby violating the la..

The Muslim Brotherhood built its strength in Egypt’s parliament this
weekend, winning 29 more seats in elections despite restrictions on voting
and arrests of its supporters ... .
... 115 candidates won seats in Saturday’s run-offs...  75 for the ruling
National Democratic Party; 38 for independents; and two for the New Wafd
opposition party. Judges stopped the election..

Rigging Elections Under the Supervision of the Judiciary

Polls apart

Election results are revealing Egypt’s growing divide between religion and politics, writes Rory McCarthy

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood continues to surprise with its strong performance at the polls in the current month-long parliamentary elections. The outlawed Islamist movement has secured at least 76 seats and stands to win still more in the next round of votin..

Egypt judges reject election results

Observers say the police acted in a partisan manner
 
An influential Egyptian group of jurists has said it did not recognise the results of parliamentary runoff elections, citing reports by 113 polling place judges who reported irregularities.

The Judges Club, which was supervising the election process, said its members we..

REFORMING EGYPT: IN SEARCH OF A STRATEGY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS i
I. EGYPT’S FALSE "SPRING" 1
A. MUBARAK’S FEBRUARY SURPRISE 1
B. THE SENSE OF MOMENTUM 2
II. THE SEASON OF DISILLUSIONMENT 4
A. THE AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 76 4
B. THE OTHER LAWS 7
C. THE IMPLICAT..

Egypt shrugs off Islamist votes but won’t lift ban
By Stephen Brown

Egypt’s government views the Islamist opposition’s election gains without concern, but has no intention of lifting a ban on the Muslim Brotherhood becoming a legal political party, a presidential aide said on Tuesday.

"What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing," President Hosni Mubarak..

Arabs should not exclude Islamist parties - Albright

 
The United States should not back "sham" reforms in the Arab world which continue to isolate powerful Islamist opposition, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Monday.

"It would be a mistake to exclude Islamist parties on the assumption they are inherently undemocratic or prone to violence," she s..

To be worse
Rights groups say this year’s parliamentary vote is as fraudulent and violent as past polls but with more serious repercussions. Gihan Shahine reports 
Bystanders were amazed at the "neutrality" of security forces in the face of widespread aggression against voters
That the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) had perhaps "lost its temper," fretting the loss of its ..