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Old 12-25-2011, 05:49   #2
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Egypt Islamists take two-thirds of 2nd-round vote

Egypt Islamists take two-thirds of 2nd-round vote

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7BN0C620111224

The count is out and between the two Islamist parties they only got 65% of the vote. Now the vote moves into the more conservative rural areas.

"(Reuters) - Egypt's two leading Islamist parties won about two-thirds of votes for party lists in the second round of polling for a parliament that will help draft a new constitution after decades of autocratic rule, the election committee said Saturday.

The party list led by the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 36.3 percent of the list vote, while the ultra-conservative Salafi al-Nour Party took 28.8 percent, pushing the liberal Wafd party into third place...................."
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