One Egyptian Killed in Election Violence       
Riot police clashed Thursday with  
would-be voters, killing one person, and they closed off polling
stations in several Muslim Brotherhood and opposition strongholds as
Egypt entered the final round of its troubled legislative elections.
Police fired into a crowd in the Balteem dist..

Egyptian riot police battle voters in local elections
By Nadia Abou El-Magd

 Riot police battled voters today, killing one person and blocking entry to polling stations in opposition strongholds in the third and final round of Egypt’s legislative elections.

Police fired into a crowd in the Balteem district of Kafr el-Sheik, killing Gomaa el-Zeftawi, a fisherman, and woun..

Towards the renaissance
The Muslim Brotherhood’s success in Egypt’s parliamentary elections is based on its honesty, diligence and appeal as a mirror of Islamic heritage, writes Essam El-Erian*

Reform in Egypt has been delayed for a long time. When its propitious signs first appeared on the horizon, some were filled with legitimate anxiety and fear the sources of which are understoo..

Political wastelands
The secular opposition is the biggest casualty of the parliamentary elections, writes Fatemah Farag

The losses have been staggering: all the leading figures of the left-leaning Tagammu Party lost their seats, including political veteran and former Free Officer Khaled Mohieddin in Kafr Shukr in Qalyoubiya, long-standing MP for Port Said El-Badri Farghali and labo..

Lessons learned
Amira Howeidy finds out why the Muslim Brotherhood is on target to win 100 parliamentary seats despite election fraud, violence and arrests  

 
During the last two weeks Islam Abdel-Hamid, 28, an accountant who also runs a small business of his own, has devoted the great majority of his time to the "cause" in which he believes. As "media coordinator" ..

As tough as it gets
With the judges entering the fray, the final stage of parliamentary elections scheduled for today and Wednesday will be more contentious than ever, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

The third and final stage of parliamentary elections begins today amid heightened tensions after the second stage ended on Saturday in a stand-off between the judges in charge of monitor..

Israel and Egypt’s elections

Ariel Sharon will certainly take ad..

El-Sharqia: Sonic Bombs and Tear Gas Canisters

Since police besieged el-Sadat village of el-Sharqia, the home town of
the
Brotherhood’s nominee, and voters were kept out of polling stations,
monitoring judges staged a sit-in in el-Sadat School yard as a sign of
protest.

When bored barred voters pushed emphatically for being allowed to cast
votes, police opene..

Polls end in Sohag

In Bandar Sohag constituency, police hindered voting process under the
pretext of having order among voters. Two female Brotherhood’s backers
were
detained, in addition. The representatives of the Brotherhood’s
nominees
were denied access to polling centers. The voting process was
remarkably
slowed down. The polling station no 157 vote was ..

Final phase of Egypt elections marred by violence
 
A supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood (R) fights with National Democratic Party supporters (L) during a brawl at a voting station in the Sanwea district in Mansoura, north of Cairo, Thursday 01 December 2005, during the third round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections. EPA/KHALED EL FIQI
Cairo - Violence marred the final phas..

Polls in el-Arish

In el-Arish constituency of Northern Sinai, officers hindered
face-covered
voters giving their votes, though high rate of women in Sinai are
face-covered.

In spite of high turnout, voters were prevented from casting ballots.
Besides, thugs allied to the National Democratic Party attacked two
monitors of the NGOs. Later on, the supervisory ju..

El-Mansoura Seems to Be a Reminiscent of Damanhore
The preliminary results of el-Mansora vote show the two Muslim Brotherhood’s nominees, Hany Ali and Saber Zaher, sweepingly leading. However, the outcome did not come out yet. While supervisory judges left the voting count commission, security forces were deploying surrounding it. In other words, the same scene of Damanhore’s voting results ..

Battling with illusions
There is both less and more to the struggle between the NDP and the Muslim Brotherhood than meets the eye, writes Samir Morcos*

Following the first two rounds of elections the political scene appears to have been reduced to a competition between the ruling party and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Perhaps one of the most prominent features of this scene is the u..

Egyptian Judges Portrayed Honorable Image in Polls

 
In spite of thuggery and government pressures, most monitoring judges illustrated a respectable and fair image in the course of today’s vote.
In el-Khaita village of Dametta constituency, which witnessed bloody instances, judges refused to transfer the polling boxes in armored vehicles and rented microbus at their own expen..

Egyptian Polls Turn Deadly, Police Hinder Voting

 
By IOL Correspondents*

 The third and last round of Egypt’s legislative elections turned bloody Thursday, December 1, after security forces killed one citizen and wounded more than seventy others and blocked thousands of voters from casting their ballot, prompting judges supervising the process to threaten a walk-ou..

PRESS STATEMENT
INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE ON ELECTION MONITORING-ICEM
MONITORING THE THIRD PHASE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

Voter Disenfranchisement and Arrests Dominate the Election Day

Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:00AM

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..

Mutual containment
The Muslim Brotherhood, far from adhering to defined principles, is a movement that employs political opportunism at will, writes Salah Eissa*

The most important revelation of the first two stages of parliamentary elections is that the theoretically-banned Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has made substantial gains. The MB has won 76 of the 302 seats filled so far; tha..

New NDP Scandal
The same ugly scenario of fraud repeats again in el-Mansurah. The two MB nominees Dr. Yosry Hany and Saber Zaher get the highest votes, but the security forces com, surround the constituency, grab the two winners out, beat them and finally announce the two others NDP candidates to be the winners. Dr Yosry and Saber got more than eleven thousand votes each, while the (chosen o..

Two Brotherhood Nominees in el-Mansora were Defeated by Fraud
 
In a new episode of ballot fraud, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidates in el-Mansora were announced unsuccessful albeit their sweeping lead during ballot count, where Hany Ali got 11000 votes and Saber Zaher took 11100 votes.
 
After electoral count sub-commissions finished vote counting, results were delivered..

The final results: 35 of Brotherhood’s Nominees in Run-offs

 
Despite of security repressive measures of cordoning polling centers and some complete villages that marred the third round of parliamentary polls, the final official outcome showed most of Brotherhood’s nominees will run for run-off vote on December 7.
The outcomes of the third round of parliamentary polls are com..