Egypt holds runoffs amid fraud claims

Cairo – Egypt held runoff parliamentary elections on Sunday that are certain to hand President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party a crushing victory after the two main opposition groups decided to boycott in protest of alleged fraud in the first round. The vote, which will decide the fate of 50 percent of parliament’s 508 elected seats, was marred by reports of armed clashes in the north and south and allegations of widespread vote buying in many constituencies in Cairo. With a large-scale crackdown ahead of the vote that included arrest sweeps, Egypt’s ruling establishment appeared determined to purge the largest opposition group, the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, from the next legislature….

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Egypt holds runoffs amid fraud claims

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