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Egyptian Elections: Preliminary Results [UPDATED]
[This entry will be regularly updated. Last update: 6:50 pm, Monday, January 9, Egypt time] The table below summarizes the most recent seat breakdown by party/coalition after the completion of the first round of voting in the final stage of the election. Results do not include runoff races for stage #3 (scheduled for 10-11 January), as well as races that have not been settled due to pending legal challenges or scheduled re-votes (see the table’s accompanying notes for more information). More detailed breakdown by governorate for stages #1, stage #2, and stage #3 can also be found below. Remaining Seats: Thus far, the fate of 427 out of 498 seats in ...
Keep Reading »Book Review: Stories of the Streets Around Tahrir Square
![[Stories of the Streets Around Tahrir Square. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_streetsaroundtahrir.jpg "[Stories of the Streets Around Tahrir Square. Image from unknown archive.]")
Egyptian Days continues excavating the history of downtown with an issue about the streets surrounding Tahrir, where battles continue to take place. Selselet Ayam Masreya (Egyptian Days series) edited by Mohamed Kamaly, Cairo: Ayam Masreya, 2011. pp. 66. The new issue of the Egyptian Days series chose the streets of Tahrir Square as its theme. Indeed, it is the theme around which many events are taking place: political movements, angry youth, and masses refusing the policies of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) are all centered around Tahrir Square and the streets around it since 25 January. Egyptian Days is mainly independent, supported by ...
Keep Reading »Reform and Development Party-Misruna
![[Reform and Development Party-Misruna logo. Image from rdpegypt.org]](/content_images/3/sm_rdpm.jpg "[Reform and Development Party-Misruna logo. Image from rdpegypt.org]")
Reform and Development Party-Misruna The Reform and Development Party (RDP) was established in 2009 by Mohamed Anwar Esmat Al-Sadat (commonly known as Esmat Al-Sadat), a nephew of late Egyptian president Anwar Al-Sadat. Egyptian authorities turned down RDP’s initial license application in July 2010, but the party was eventually legalized in May 2011 in the wake of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution. In June of this year, the RDP merged with Misruna [Our Egypt], a party founded by business tycoon Ramy Lakah who was pushed out of the liberal Al-Wafd Party in April 2011. The nascent party therefore now refers to itself as “the Reform and Development-Misruna Party” (RDP-M). The ...
Keep Reading »Video: Security Forces Kill Two More Protesters in Egypt
![[Army and Police Forcefully Clear Tahrir on 19 December 2011. Photo Credit: Mosireen media collective.]](/content_images/3/sm_AmyandpoliceclearTahirSquare.jpg "[Army and Police Forcefully Clear Tahrir on 19 December 2011. Photo Credit: Mosireen media collective.]")
Coordinated attack early Monday morning on Tahrir Square by Army and security forces latest surge in violent crackdown on political dissent against ruling military junta. As the fierce fighting between protesters, the military and Central Security Forces entered its fourth day, at 3:50am Monday morning Egyptian security forces attacked Tahrir Square, leaving two protesters dead. Despite video footage showing the contrary, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) claimed in a televised press conference Monday afternoon that there was no evidence of the use of violence against protesters. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton ...
Keep Reading »Activists Campaign to Unmask Military Atrocities at SCAF Press Conference
![[An Egyptian Army tank in Tahrir Square. Photo Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.]](/content_images/3/sm_Egypt10.jpg "[An Egyptian Army tank in Tahrir Square. Photo Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.]")
Revolution Youth Coalition calls for campaign to combat 'lies' expected to be aired over recent Tahrir violence at Monday's SCAF press conference. As the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is calling for a press conference on Monday at 12pm, the Revolution Youth Coalition is urging journalists to take pictures of the killing of protestors conducted by the military over the past two days. The press conference at the State Information Service Centre is supposed to include an explanation by the SCAF as to what led to the recent escalation of violence that has left at least two dead and hundreds injured. SCAF representatives are expected to show footage explaining ...
Keep Reading »Three Killed During Failed Attempt to Clear Tahrir Square
![[Egyptian protesters evacuate an injured fellow protester during clashes with army soldiers near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. Egypt's military sought to isolate pro-democracy activists protesting against. Photo Credit: AP.]](/content_images/3/sm_protests.jpg "[Egyptian protesters evacuate an injured fellow protester during clashes with army soldiers near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. Egypt's military sought to isolate pro-democracy activists protesting against. Photo Credit: AP.]")
Two protesters shot dead by security forces during attack on Tahrir Square, one dies in detention. Military police and Central Security Forces (CSF) killed three protestors in a failed attempt to clear protesters from Tahrir Square on Sunday night. Protesters accused security forces of using sewage water mixed with kerosene gas during the attack. Two protesters were shot dead by security forces. It is unclear precisely who fired the fatal bullets but video taken from the scene shows both military police and CSF officers shooting into the crowd. A third protester arrested during last night’s attack died in detention. He was due to be transferred to the ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Tahrir Party
![[Egyptian Tahrir Party logo. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_hizbtahrirmasri.jpg "[Egyptian Tahrir Party logo. Image from unknown archive.]")
Egyptian Tahrir Party The Egyptian Tahrir Party received its official license on 5 September 2011, though party founders claim that they were talking about forming a party before the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Sufi leader Mohammad Alaa Al-Din Abul Azayem called on followers to join the party, purportedly in order to counterbalance the influence of rival Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Salafist movements. Although the party is often described as a “Sufi” party and various Sufi movements publicly support it, the group’s spokespeople are all non-Sufis. Party leader Ibrahim Zahran describes Egyptian Tahrir as a ...
Keep Reading »متى يزور قادة الإخوان واشنطن؟
كانت واشنطن ضمن أولى العواصم التى زارها زعيم حركة النهضة، ذات المرجعية الإسلامية، السيد راشد الغنوشى، عقب فوزها فى الانتخابات البرلمانية التى شهدتها تونس خلال شهر أكتوبر الماضى. وخلال ندوات ومقابلات عديدة، بعضها مغلق وبعضها علنى، أجاب السيد الغنوشى على عدة أسئلة مهمة تتعلق بتوجه الحكومة التونسية الجديدة تجاه قضايا عديدة تهم العالم الخارجى، إلا أنه لم يوجه للجانب الأمريكى أسئلة تذكر. ومنذ الإعلان عن نتائج المرحلة الأولى من انتخابات مجلس الشعب، والتى حققت فيها جماعة الإخوان المسلمين انتصارا كبيرا مشابها لانتصار حركة النهضة التونسية، تتساءل دوائر عديدة فى واشنطن عن موعد قيام قادة الجماعة بزيارة واشنطن، وهى الزيارة التى ستكون تاريخية بكل المقاييس كون الجماعة تمثل أكبر وأهم ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Bloc
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Egyptian Bloc Coalition Members: Free Egyptians Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and Al-Tagammu Party. The Egyptian Bloc consists of the Free Egyptians Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and Al-Tagammu Party. The Bloc is often portrayed as a “secular-leaning” alliance that seeks to counterbalance the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the upcoming elections, specifically the Brotherhood led Democratic Alliance’s electoral coalition. Members of the Bloc announced in early November that their partnership is not simply a short-term electoral coalition, but encompasses a long-term political alliance aimed at turning Egypt into a civil democratic ...
Keep Reading »Interview with Shahira Abouellail on the Eve of the Egyptian Elections
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[This interview was conducted on November 22nd, on the eve of the first round of elections] As the first stage of post-Mubarak Egyptian Parliamentary elections begin today, the second wave of the Revolution continues in Tahrir Square and throughout Egypt. After a massive demonstration on Friday, 18 November 2011, calling for an end to military rule, about 200 people, mainly family members of martyrs who died in the January 25 uprisings and people who were previously injured, staged a sit-in at Tahrir Square. Central Security Forces and Egyptian military police violently dismantled the sit-in, and since then, thousands have come together to reoccupy Tahrir Square. The ...
Keep Reading »Democratic Elections: A (Post-)Colonial Telling
Seoud Omar, a member of the Suez Canal Authority’s workers union, stood for parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Egypt’s port city of Suez. Just a week before the people of Suez went to vote in the second stage of elections on 14 and 15 December, the numbers assigned to each candidate on the ballot were suddenly changed. Many voters rely on these numbers to identify their preferred candidate in a long list of names on a confusing ballot paper. While Omar’s few election posters spread ...
Keep Reading »Q&A: Brotherhood's Spokesman Talks Power, Polls, Parliament, and Presidency
Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghazlan speaks to Ahram Online about poll results; incoming parliament; recent clashes; democratic transition; crime and punishment; presidential elections; and the Salafist question. Dr Mahmoud Ghazlan is an official spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, the political arm of which – the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) – performed even better than expected in the first two rounds of voting in Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls. The FJP has so far secured ...
Keep Reading »Q&A with Khaled El-Sayyed: Youth in Parliament
Revolution Continues parliamentary candidate Khaled El-Sayyed reflects on his experience of running in the elections and why parliament should reflect the soul of the revolution. With young activists and protesters at the forefront of the Egyptian revolution, the upcoming parliament was expected to feature a significant number of youth members. With the second stage entering run-offs this week, it has become apparent that for the many young candidates contesting seats in parliament, their chances of ...
Keep Reading »Military 'Heroes' Bore the Unbearable Amid Plot to Destroy Egypt: SCAF
Major General Adel Emara describes the army soldiers who have been facing protesters in downtown, Cairo, over the past three days as “heroes.” Adel Emara, deputy defence minister and member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), described the soldiers confronting, and attacking, protesters in downtown Cairo over the past three days as "heroes who bore the unbearable’" while dealing with "sabotaging" culprits. In a press conference Monday in response to the aftermath of a ...
Keep Reading »Prosecution Detains 123 Accused of Violence Near Cabinet, Releases 28
Prosecution investigates accusations against 178 arrested during clashes near Cabinet. South Cairo Prosecution has continued investigations in the violence near Cabinet where 11 were officially reported killed and tens injured. The prosecution heard the accounts of 178 accused of torching fire to the parliament and Shoura buildings, the Scientific Compound, the district of Boulaq as well as West Cairo. The prosecution ordered the detention of 123 of the accused and released 22 children and 6 young ...
Keep Reading »Al-Adl Party
Al-Adl Party Al-Adl Party was formally established in the wake of former President Mubarak’s ouster. The party declares that it seeks to protect the goals of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution and promote the country’s social and economic development. Al-Adl professes a liberal platform calling for a civil, free, and modern state though the party decided from the outset to not align itself with Egypt’s liberal or Islamist camps, calling instead for a “third way”. Before the Revolution Its main founding ...
Keep Reading »لهذه الأسباب لن تتوقف ثورة مصر
صباح جمعة الفرصة الأخيرة قبل أكثر من أسبوعين، اختارت صحيفة الأهرام الرسمية هذا العنوان الرئيسى: الفرصة الأخيرة..الاستقرار أو الفوضى. وفى كل مواجهة بين النظام الحاكم وبين القوى الثائرة، سواء كانت فى ميدان التحرير أم الأربعين أم العباسية أم فى مصانع المحلة وأتوبيسات النقل العام، تقفز فى وجوهنا هذه المجابهة السمجة التى تصور كل فعل للجماهير وللثوار على أنه أمر سلبى يتعارض مع «رغبة أغلبية المصريين فى أن يبدأ عصر البناء وأن نلتفت جميعا لمصلحة مصر قبل مصالحنا الخاصة وأن يعود الاستقرار..الخ» من هذا الرطان ...
Keep Reading »The Strike Wave and the Crisis of the Egyptian State
The explosion of huge protests across Egypt in the final week before the first round of the parliamentary elections on 28th and 29th November, demanding the rapid transfer of power from the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), brought into the open millions of Egyptians’ growing anger with the military leaders who have governed the country since February. The uprising followed weeks of rising tensions between revolutionary activists and the military. The massacre of demonstrators demanding ...
Keep Reading »The Egyptian Military Tortures Demonstrator Mohamed Munir
On the night of Tuesday 22 November 2011 just a week before parliamentary elections in Egypt began 31-year old Mohamed Munir went to Tahrir square to join thousands of Egyptians once again demonstrating there. The demonstrations all over the country flared up again after the Egyptian security forces brutally attacked a group of demonstrators in Tahrir square on 19 November. Those the forces attacked had been injured in the early days of the Janaury 25 revolution and are still waiting for recognition, ...
Keep Reading »عذرًا لن ترى الثورة في صورة فوتوغرافية
تبدو الأمور أحيانا وكأن الثورة قد وصلت طريقا ضيقا ويصبح مستحيلا لأى كان أن يعتمد عليها بأى درجة كانت من اليقين. إن الإضراب العام يندفع حينا كالموجة العارمة على امتداد البلد كلها. حينا يتفرع إلى شبكة كبيرة جدا من الروافد الصغيرة، حينا ينبثق من باطن الأرض كالنبع، وحينا يختفى فى جوف الأرض. إضرابات سياسية واقتصادية، إضرابات جماهيرية وإضرابات جزئية، إضرابات تظاهرية وإضرابات صدامية، إضرابات عامة فى فروع فردية من الصناعة وإضرابات عامة فى مدن معينة، نضالات سلمية من أجل الأجور ومذابح شوارع، قتال متاريس، كل هذه ...
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