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Old 04-30-2011, 17:19   #10
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Oh, it‘s OK: they’re “The Freedom and Justice Party” now.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/3...l-run-for.html

Muslim Brotherhood will run for half of Egypt's parliament

By HANNAH ALLAM
McClatchy Newspapers
CAIRO, Egypt -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and best-organized Islamist faction in Egypt, announced Saturday the formation of its new political party and said it plans to contest half the seats in parliament in the first post-revolution elections scheduled for next fall.

The Freedom and Justice Party is the culmination of more than 80 years of struggle toward official recognition and full political participation for the Muslim Brotherhood. Since the group's founding in 1928, successive Egyptian administrations have outlawed the group and arrested its members.

"This party will be independent from the Brotherhood, but will coordinate with it," Mahmoud Hussein, the secretary general of the Brotherhood, told a news conference in Cairo.

The party will be led by Mohamed Morsy, who served in the Brotherhood's political bureau, along with other well-known figures: Essam el Erian as deputy chief and Saad Katatni as secretary general.

Under deposed President Hosni Mubarak's regime, the Brotherhood was officially banned and continually persecuted, but its members could run for office as independents....
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