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Elections 2011

Egypt Shura Council elections to kick off 29 January

First and second stages of Shura elections slated for 29/30 January and 14/15 February respectively; First and second stage runoffs on 7 and 22 February, say officials

BREAKING: Brotherhood leader is speaker of Egypt's post-Mubarak parliament

Jimmy Carter arrives in Cairo to follow 3rd-round runoff polls

Former US president to visit polling stations, oversee vote-counting and meet with political, civil society representatives

FJP and Nour lead in second stage of Egypt parliament elections

Preliminary results show that the Freedom and Justice Party and Salafist Nour Party are leading in the second stage of the parliamentary elections in six of the nine governorates

Conservative Party candidate justifies NDP past

Parliamentary candidate in Gharbiya likens dark past with NDP to Prophet Muhammad’s alliance with Jews of Medina

Forty thousand Egyptians in Saudi Arabia register to vote in parliamentary elections

More expatriate Egyptians eligible to vote in Saudi Arabia than any other country

Muslim Brotherhood stages bicycle race to “promote sport among youth”

The Freedom and Justice Party wants Egypt's youth to get fit, not take drugs, say party officials

Landmark ruling bans former members of NDP from running for parliament

Members of Mubarak's now dissolved ruling party, the NDP, have been banned from running in upcoming parliamentary elections in a crucial ruling by the Dakahlia governorate's foremost court

Liberals and leftists say Islamists bribed poor people with meat to get votes over Eid

Islamist food donations exploited the religious festival for electoral gain, say leading liberal candidate for parliament Amr Hamzawy as well as leaders of the leftist Revolution Continues electoral bloc

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Egypt holds runoffs for 1st-round Shura Council polls

One-day runoff elections for Egypt's consultative Shura Council began Tuesday morning amidst expectations of low turnout

Former US President Carter describes Egyptian women’s parliamentary share a 'disappointment'

Former US President Jimmy Carter told a Cairo-based press conference Friday that too few women made it into Egypt's post-revolutionary parliament

Thousands block railways in Upper Egypt over NDP election gains

Thousands of people in the Upper Egypt governorate of Qena infuriated as ex-members of the now-defunct National Democratic Party of Hosni Mubarak suspiciously make it to the runoffs

Final stage of Egypt parliamentary elections starts with some violations

Third and final voting stage in Egypt's parliamentary elections witnesses limited turnout, some rule-breaking, and a lower number of Brotherhood candidates

Egypt's electoral head hails 2nd round as step forward

Supreme Elections Commission head Abdel Moez Ibrahim issues 'clarifications' on second-round polling at Wednesday presser

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