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Egypt's Islamist parties win elections to parliament | Egypt's Islamist parties win elections to parliament |
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The final results in Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections confirm an overwhelming victory for Islamist parties. | The final results in Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections confirm an overwhelming victory for Islamist parties. |
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won the largest number of seats under Egypt's complex electoral system. | The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won the largest number of seats under Egypt's complex electoral system. |
The hardline Salafist Nour party came second. | The hardline Salafist Nour party came second. |
The liberal New Wafd and the secular Egyptian Bloc coalition are some way behind them. | The liberal New Wafd and the secular Egyptian Bloc coalition are some way behind them. |
Egyptians voted in three phases over a six-week period to elect the 498 members of the People's Assembly. Ten further members are appointed by the ruling military. | |
Under the country's system, two-thirds of the seats are allocated to party list candidates, and the remaining third are voted for directly. | |
The overall results mean that Islamist parties control around two-thirds of the seats in the assembly. | |
The FJP alone secured 127 seats via the party lists, and 108 from constituency votes, meaning it has almost half of all MPs. | |
The ultra-conservative Nour party won nearly a quarter of the seats. | |
Former President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign last year after a popular uprising. | Former President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign last year after a popular uprising. |
A new president is due to be elected by June under the timetable set by Egypt's military rulers. | |
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says that while the Muslim Brotherhood appear to be finally on the brink of power it is still the president who chooses the government - so the winners of this election do not automatically take office. | |
The Brotherhood - which led the opposition to Mr Mubarak during his 30 years in power - was until this year officially banned. In practice, it was tolerated as long as it remained at the margins of politics. | |
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