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The Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to increase its representation in the Egyptian parliament by succeeding in the three-stage legislative elections which will begin on Wednesday.

 Dr. Abdel Monam Abu el-Fotoh, a member of the Supreme Council of the Moslem Brotherhood, stressed that the Egyptian imminent parliamentary election will not be just due to many reasons...

Egyptians Vote in Rare Contested Election
Egyptians Cast Ballots in Parliamentary Election Seen As Test of Mubarak’s Promise to Open System
By NADIA ABOU
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptians cast ballots Wednesday in their most robustly contested parliamentary election in more than 50 years, but no one expected the vote to unseat the long-dominant party of President Hosni M..

President Nasser oversaw the nationalisation of the media in 1961...

For the past two weeks Cairo has been in the throes of election fever...

Islam Hamdoun, Ghad Party candidate in Imbaba, stands in the middle of a crowd explaining his election platform. "The door of democracy is now open," he tells his audience. "Make use of the opportunity and take from it as much as you can."..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s ubiquitous presence has been one of the dominating features of the parliamentary elections, signalling a shift in official attitudes towards a group once considered taboo...

 
An administrative court ruling allowing local supervision seems to have helped thousands of independent observers to keep a closer eye on the first round of what is perhaps Egypt’s fiercest ever parliamentary race.

 
Campaigning for this year’s parliamentary polls was all about money. Candidates spent bundles on everything from banners and billboards, to ads in the papers and on TV, to a variety of "gifts" for the vote..

 
The first stage of parliamentary elections began in eight governorates yesterday: Cairo; Giza; Al-Menoufiya, Al-Minya, Beni Sweif; Assuit, the New Valley and Marsa Matruh...

 
The Moslem Brotherhood becomes the ’dark horse’ in the Egyptian elections, though it is considered by the government as ’a banned political movement’, after being deprived from the legal recognition in 1948. ..

Ayman Nour, leader of the Al-Ghad party lost for his National Democratic Party (NDP) opponent Yehia Wahdan in the Bab El-Sharia constituency...

Lindsey Hilsum
Perhaps a "new wave of freedom" is surging across the Middle East, just as President Bush says. But democracy must reflect the view of the majority, and why should we expect vast numbers of Muslim Arabs to agree with George W Bush?