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Voters fought with riot police restricting access to the polls in the last stage of Egyptian elections on Thursday and the Muslim Brotherhood said the government was trying to limit Islamist gains in parliament.

One man was shot to death outside a polling station where police were holding voters back, the third death in the elections. Rights activists said police shot the man, but the ..

 Egypt’s Islamist opposition Muslim Brotherhood said on Friday that 30 of its 49 candidates in the third stage of parliamentary elections won a place in run-offs next week but none had yet won outright in Thursday’s voting.

Only candidates who take at least 50 percent of the vote win in the first round; otherwise the two top candidates compete again six days later.

The ..

Confirmed By-elections in Egypt
An Egyptian Secularist Dilemma:
Between a Corrupt Government and a Theocratic Government

For many long years the picture in Egypt lacked many parts that prevented it from its characteristics being clear. However, what Egypt has been witnessing this year is only a collection of many parts of this picture, which is about to be complete and clear f..

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The 3rd Round Witnessed Government Changing Approach
 
By Muhammad Abdel Moaz
 
The government assumed its usual strong-arm tactics in order to clamp down on opposition and Muslim Brotherhood in particular. For the Brotherhood’s major wins in the first two rounds of vote posed insupportable threat on the government.
 
Therefore, the third stage witnessed increas..

The Rise of the Islamists and their Legitimacies
Zouheir Kseibati

The latest surprises of the Parliamentary elections in Egypt complete today the picture of the earthquake that toppled the traditional equation in the struggle between the ruling party and the non-religious parties in favor of the "Muslim Brotherhood"… Many signs of this picture wouldn’t have taken shape without the US..

Muslim Brotherhood ’won no seats’ in Egypt elections

The leading opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, won no seats in the final round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections after police barred thousands of its supporters from casting ballots, according to official results announced today.

But 35 Brotherhood candidates won places in run-off elections next week to decide seat..

Runoffs Settle Most Seats in Egypt’s Finale

 
Police barred voters from casting ballots in some stations. (Reuters)
 
By Hamdy Al Husseini, IOL Correspondent

CAIRO, December 2, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Final results of Egypt’s third round of the month-long parliamentary elections were due later Friday, December 2, with semi-final tallies showing almost all 13..

Egypt Islamists fail to win seats 
 
Riot police restricted access to some polling stations
Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood failed to win a single seat outright in the final round of parliamentary elections held on Thursday.
But 35 independents standing on behalf of the banned group did win places in next Wednesday’s run-off vote.

President Hosni Mubarak’..

Ruling party ahead of Moslem Brotherhood in Egyptian election round

 Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) gained strength in the final phase of the country’s parliamentary polls, leaving its competitor, the Moslem Brotherhood, with no decided seats in this round, according to results announced Friday.

The development marked a break from the first two phases w..

Egyptian Regime Blames Poll Violence on MB

 
A Ministry of Interior statement said Muslim Brotherhood supporters incited riots and carried out violence. (AP).

 
By Ahmed Fathy, IOL Staff

 The Egyptian Ministry of Interiors Friday, December 2, accused supporters of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood (MB) of inciting riots, carrying out violent acts and..

EGYPT: MUSLIM FIGHTS MUSLIM
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
 

What Egypt should do is once again ban the Muslim Brotherhood. When it was banned, there was more of a chance for civility in Egypt. But without the ban, civil Egyptians are frightened by what could happen if the Muslim Brotherhood got into political and social power.

The Muslim Brotherhood espouses Islam world rul..

Muslim Brothers ’not a worry’
 

The vice-president of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the banned Islamist movement whose gains shocked the country in Sunday’s elections, wrote in a British newspaper on Tuesday that there was no need to fear them.

Khairat el-Shatir wrote in The Guardian daily that democratic reforms could trigger a renaissance in Egypt.

Shatir ..

Islamist Opposition Parties Gaining in Egyptian Elections
By Mohamed Elshinnawi

Bad show for Muslim Brotherhood
  

The leading opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, fared poorly in the final round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, winning no seats outright in polling blighted by violence and a denial of access to voting stations, government and Brotherhood officials said on Friday.

Partial results from Thursday’s polling showed the ruli..

Police beat up judges, block voting in Egypt

Riot police clashed with would-be voters and blocked off polling stations to prevent people from casting ballots in several Muslim Brotherhood and opposition strongholds yesterday, as Egypt entered the final round of legislative elections marred by violence and allegations of rigging.

In one village, men and women determined t..

Egypt’s parliamentary elections have made manifest a truth long in the offing: the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) has a formidable rival in the Muslim Brotherhood. Although the final round of elections is scheduled for the first week of December, the Brotherhood already has enough seats to nominate a presidential candidate in 2011. Observing the surprise with which some NDP members met ..

Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

For an outlawed political party, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has had an impressive showing in parliamentary elections. The group significantly bolstered its presence in 454-seat parliament and has established itself as the leading opposition group in Egypt --an ascent that looms worrisomely behind President Bush’s Greater Middle East Initiative.
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The Guardian, Dec 3, 2005: Egypt Awakes

The National Campaign to Monitor Election Shadow Election Monitoring
Press Release Statement

Concerning Parliament Stage II Re-Election Monitoring

The National Campaign for Monitoring the Elections and the Arab
Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession,
the Shadow Committee for Election Monitoring coordinator, held a
press confer..