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![]() Egypt: Irregularities during Shura elections bode poorly for upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections
The National Democratic Ruling Party captured 80, of the 88 seats contested where 14 ruling party candidates ran unopposed.
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Tuesday, July 6,2010 07:03 | |||||||
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Amr Hashem Rabie, an expert on parliamentary affairs at the semi-official Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies asserted recently that the Shura elections revealed widespread electoral fraud at the ballot box and during the electoral procedure
The National Democratic Ruling Party captured 80, of the 88 seats contested where 14 ruling party candidates ran unopposed. Only three seats went to independent candidates while 5 seats were acquired by the Tagammu, Nasserist, Al-Geel, Al-Ghad and Al-Wafd parties despite having fielded 39 of the 446 candidates that ran. Three seats went to independent candidates
Rabie maintained that without the regimes accustomed vote rigging, the Brotherhood would undoubtedly win a lot more seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections than the 88 they captured in 2005 hence, the regime, intends to secure elections by allocating the Brotherhood's current seats to the smaller insignificant opposition parties |
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tags: Egyptian Parliament / Shura Election / NDP / Opposition Parties / Ruling Regime / Presidential Elections / Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood / / Moderate Muslim Brotherhood /
Posted in Election Coverage |
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