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The Muslim Brotherhood on the verge of victory (Part 1 of 3)Ahmed Al-Rabei 
 
 The choice of Egypt’s ballot boxes should be respected regardless of the results. The Muslim Brotherhood should also be treated as a legitimate political bloc since it has achieved its gains through the ballot box, irrespective of other minor details or our personal position towards it. Democracy..

NGO’s Report: Crackdowns and Blockage of Voters are the Titles of 3rd Round

By Yasser Hady
 
In its report, the Egyptian Association for Social Participation Rise detected the irregularities of the third round of the ongoing parliamentary polls. The most outstanding contraventions were the prevention of voters, crackdowns of opposition supporters, and outdated electoral r..

When Egypt’s presidential runner-up Ayman Nur heads to court Sunday, he will take his prison bundle with him, expecting the final nail in the coffin of his challenge to the regime of arch foe President Hosni Mubarak.

"I’ll be going with my personal effects, (as) I have done for several days. I’m expecting to be jailed any moment," Nur told News Agencies in an interview.

"My wife..

Egypt’s judges are considering boycotting the runoffs of the third and final phase of the month-long legislative elections, to protest violations and violence that marred the polling.

"Many of our colleagues, who were assaulted by police and thugs and witnessed the security closure of villages and blocking voting, call for boycotting the runoffs," Ahmed Mekki, deputy chief of the Co..

U.S. prods Egypt to clean up election

 The United States urged Egypt on Monday to clean up its elections, which have been marred by accusations of fraud, voter intimidation and a crackdown on the main Islamist opposition group.

The United States has this year prodded one of its closest allies in the Middle East to improve its democratic record despite some U.S. and Egy..

35 MBs in the run-offs 
- Egypt’s Islamist opposition Muslim Brotherhood said on Friday that 35 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..

Egypt Discusses how to Live with ’Muslim Brothers’
By Cumali Onal
Published: Sunday, December 04, 2005
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 Egypt and the World public is focused on the number of chairs Muslim Brothers (MB) will win after the last tour of the parliamentary elections to be held on Wednesday (December 7) and on the expected struggle between the government and MB.

Some ..

Rights watchdog says US failing Egyptian voters

  
  - U.S. failure to criticize Egypt over the arrest of opposition activists and the intimidation of voters in elections has made a mockery of Washington’s commitment to Middle East democracy, a rights group said.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the U.S. State Department that its comments o..

Look Who’sComing to Dinner

The banned-but-tolerated Muslim Brotherhoodposts a strong showing in the first two rounds of this year’s parliamentary election as traditional opposition parties melt down
Byآ Noha El-Hennawy

WE DECLARE THAT Islam is the solution,” bellowed the voices amplified through megaphones thrust out the windows of cars roaring up and down..

Court OKs monitoring of vote via television 
- Independent poll monitors will be able to watch ballot counting by closed-circuit television cameras in all future Egyptian elections, a court ruled Saturday.
Election monitors have complained of difficulty gaining access to polling and counting stations during Egypt’s violence- marred parliamentary elections, which began Nov. 9 and wil..

Egypt court allows monitoring of vote count with cameras  

Muslim Brotherhood Poses No Threat to Arts: Omar Sharif

 
"This is a much ado about nothing. They (Muslim Brothers) are not against arts," Sharif told IOL.

 
By Hamdy AL Husseini, IOL Correspondent

  – World renowned Egyptian movie star Omar Sharif shrugged off concerns that the Muslim Brotherhood, which is making big gains in the current legislativ..

Sawasya’s Focused Eyes on the Egyptian Parliamentary Election 2005

Provisional Report Number (1), Cairo at 09:30 Am

1st Round of Stage 3 of the Egyptian Parliamentary Election 2005-12-01

Complete Close Down of Polling Stations…. Arrest of Some Candidate’s Representatives

At the start of the first round of the third stage of the..

Born in Egypt in 1967, Mona She was a correspondent for the Reuters News Agency in Cairo and Jerusalem and also wrote for the Guardian newspaper from the Middle East. Mona is also a frequent contributor to opinion pages in the US and abroad. Her Op-Eds have appeared in The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also been..

Mubarak Outdoes Himself
Election Fraud Backfires

By Jackson Diehl

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a former general, practices politics with martial crudeness, so his latest scheme for thwarting the Bush administration’s pro-democracy agenda wasn’t hard to discern. Under pressure from Washington to hold free and fair elections for his formerly rubber-stamp parliament, Mubara..

Daily welcomes victory of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt’s

An Iranian daily welcomed on Monday the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, stressing that it pointed to the fact that "Islam still plays a positive and key role in the country."
Despite all pressures, 14 candidates of the Muslim Brotherhood won seats in the third round of parliamentary el..

Judges demand Habib\’s dismissal 
– Egyptian judges on Sunday, December 4, called on President Hosni Mubarak to sack the minister of interior for police attacks on their peers during the first round of the third and last phase of the parliamentary elections.

A coalition of Egyptian rights groups have also called for the resignation of the government of Ahmed Nazif for failing to..

The Judges Warn the Government
 
During yesterday’s stormy meeting of the Egyptian Judges Union, Counselor Zakria Abdel Aziz, the Union’s Chairman, warned the government against the continuation of assaults against election monitoring judges. He vowed to make the coming session of the union’s General Assembly a trial for the government and to stage a sit-in in the union till it hands..

Egypt’s election outcome may threaten economic relations
 
The Muslim Brotherhood is expected to win 100 of the 444 seats in the Egyptian parliament. 
 
 
There is concern in Egypt about the repercussions of the Muslim Brotherhood’s success in the parliamentary elections. At the end of the third and round of voting this week, the Muslim Brotherhood is expecte..