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Egypttoday
April 18, 2018
299 defendants removed from Egypt's terror list. Tue, Apr. 17, 2018. Egyptian TV Presenter Osama Kamal interviewing Sophia the Robot during her visit in Egypt - PhotoÃâà...
International Policy Digest
April 17, 2018
A young Egyptian journalist believes “stability” has replaced “democracy” as a popular demand in Egypt, saying that those familiar with the political situation in this country were ... El-Sisi's sole competitor Moussa Moustafa Moussa, is an obscure politician who leads Al-Ghad pro-government political party.
Egypttoday
April 17, 2018
CAIRO – 17 April 2018: The detention of Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, president of the Masr Al-Qawya (Strong Egypt) political party, was renewed for another 15 days, pending investigations ... Sabry accused Aboul Fotouh of “spreading fake news” and demeaning Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
DailyNews
April 15, 2018
This is not the first election that has been dominated by such political parties with suspicions most of them are sponsored to cause confusion, hence split the vote. In past elections some of them would withdraw on the eve of the polls. It is one thing registering a political party and another to keep it runningÃâà...
Egypt Independent
April 10, 2018
“The idea of turning the coalition to a political party does exist, but it is not being discussed seriously until now,” Hasballah added. ... “Egypt needs large political parties competing in political life, especially in the presence of more than 100 parties that do not have a presence or influence in the street,” heÃâà...
Mada Masr
April 7, 2018
Leaders of Parliament's Alliance to Support Egypt coalition are holding discussions to create at least one new political party from the coalition's own ranks in the ... For Eissa, the coalition has enough popular momentum, which is what any political party needs in the eyes of the wider Egyptian public.
The Arab Weekly
April 7, 2018
Egypt's political parties are already looking ahead to the 2022 elections, with Moussa confirming he plans to run in the election. Al-Wafd party — Egypt's oldest political party — has said that it would compete in the next election. New party Chairman Bahaaeddin Abu Shoka said he hoped to see strongerÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 31, 2018
A few days after preliminary results of Egypt's presidential election showed that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is close to a second term in office in a landslide victory, Assistant Secretary General of the political party of Egypt 2000, Mahmoud Abo el-Leil, filed a lawsuit to the Administrative Court of the StateÃâà...
africanews
March 30, 2018
Moussa believes that opposition to the ruling government must work in favor of the Egyptian people, arguing that the country needs all political parties to cooperate to face the challenges ahead. He has declared the Egyptian people as the ultimate winners in the election and stressed his willingness toÃâà...
The Guardian
March 30, 2018
Besides offering a neat example of the ulterior motive cliche – with the added hint that the elected representatives of an ethnic minority numbering 300,000 are more powerful than the leader of a mass membership political party on the brink of government – it also falls apart on the facts. For the key promptsÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 30, 2018
The lesson of that history isn't that Egyptian citizens are unprepared for a more just, open, and democratic society. Rather, it's that ... Yet in the last four decades, Egypt has had political parties and regularly scheduled elections, even as the country's leaders have only ruled by coercion and force. PresidentÃâà...
Ahram Online
March 29, 2018
The Egyptian people, whether they turned up at the polling stations or not, live in a different world to that of the media. ... arrival of the elections, which seemed to take even those responsible by surprise, as of the recovery of the political parties and the sometimes extraordinary electoral campaigning.
PBS NewsHour
March 29, 2018
Three days of voting in Egypt's presidential election ended Wednesday, and there's no doubt about the outcome: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ran with no real opposition. While dozens of opposition figures and seven political parties called for an election boycott and turnout was low, Sisi has support inÃâà...
Worldcrunch
March 27, 2018
While there is an abundance of publicity material supporting Sisi's campaign across Egypt's cities, put up by members of Parliament, businessmen and ... The Ghad Party emerged more prominently in Egyptian politics after a split in 2011, when its Political Parties Affairs Committee recognized Moussa as itsÃâà...
PRI
March 27, 2018
The organization, whose political party was briefly in charge of Egypt's government following Morsi's ascent to the presidency, has once again been ... was almost as dangerous as it now is to criticize Sisi, Abdel Moneim Said, then chairman of Egypt's most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper,Ãâà...
africanews
March 19, 2018
Led by Hamdeen Sabbahi, a former presidential candidate in 2012 and 2014, eight opposition political parties and 150 personalities launched a 'Stay ... Morsi, backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, had won the elections in 2012 elections held after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution that overthrew president longÃâà...
Egyptian Streets
March 16, 2018
Egyptians living abroad have commenced voting on 16 March for Egypt's new President at embassies and consulates across the world. Egyptians living in New Zealand and Australia were the first to participate in the elections which are being contested by Egypt's current President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi andÃâà...
Egypttoday
March 10, 2018
“I and President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi are contesting the election solely for Egypt, and not for the sake of anything else,” Moussa added, pledging to preserve Sisi's ... “We decided to join the election to offer a model for political party heads who I believe will be encouraged to run in the upcoming election.”
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The recent wave of political eliminationism and anti-media repression comes against the backdrop of an already repressive post-coup period. Between 2013 and 2017, Egyptian authorities massacred hundreds of unarmed protesters, banned rival political parties and organisations, shut down oppositionalÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
December 31, 1999
CAIRO, March 26 (KUNA) -- Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said on Monday the Egyptian people participation in the presidential elections constituted firm retaliation for skeptics and ... Mousa is chairperson of El-Ghad Party, an active political party in Egypt that was granted license in October 2004.
Arab News
December 31, 1999
CAIRO: Seven years after the Egyptian uprising, young people say they feel marginalized and apathetic about next week's presidential elections. ... El-Sisi won nearly 97 percent of the vote in 2014, a year after toppling Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's first competitively elected leader,Ãâà...
JNS.org
December 31, 1999
He urged Al-Hussein to stop attacking Egypt. When it emerged that Al-Sisi was the sole candidate, the Egyptian establishment media reportedly began pressuring heads of political parties to put forward their candidacy, so as to create the appearance of open and democratic elections. One day before theÃâà...
