Egypt’s Islamists to Dominate First Post-Mubarak Parliament
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s party alliance emerged as the largest group in Egypt’s new parliament, two days before the assembly’s first meeting following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak almost a year ago.
The alliance led by the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party won 235 of the 498 elected seats in the lower house, party spokesman Ahmed Sobea said today by phone. The head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, assigned 10 non-elected members to the parliament, Al Jazeera television reported.