Egypt's electoral commission announced the preliminary results of Sunday's parliamentary election, declaring the ruling National Democratic Party won 95 percent of the seats contested in the first round of voting. Opposition parties complained of widespread irregularities, with some threatening to pull out of the December 5 election for nearly 300 remaining parliament seats.Leaders of the opposition Wafd party and the banned Muslim Brotherhood announced yesterday that they were withdrawing from the Dec. 5 runoff election.The head of Egypt's high electoral commission, Abdel Aziz Amr, declared the NDP won 209 of 221 seats in the first round of voting. It said, only mintor incidents of fraud took place which were being handled firmly. Electoral commission spokesman Sameh Kashaf stressed there were extremely few cases of reported fraud.
News On AIR | December 2, 2010 10:09 AM
Egypt's ruling party bags 95% of Parliamentary seats