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 Also competing for the position of chairman is Doctor Mohammed Abd al-Jowad, acting chairman for the syndicate and a member of the Nasserite Party. However, he finds a lot of support from the Muslim Brotherhood, who helped him in ousting Mahmood Abd al-Maqsour from the position of Secretary General of the syndicate and put Abdullah Ghraab in his place. He is one of the Muslim Brotherhood figures inside the syndicate.

Doctor Mahmood Abd al-Mqsour is a former Secretary-General of the syndicate who also competing for the same position in the syndicate. He is the owner of a chain of pharmacies. 170 candidates from the Muslim Brotherhood for power are competing for 85 percent of the seats in the council, in addition to their attempts for power of sub-committees throughout their nominations to the position of chairman in Alexandria where they pushed Doctor Jmaal Abd al-Wahab to the position of chairman this time. In Minia Doctor Badr Hilmi withdrew from the elections, who had also occupied the position of chair for the last 10 years. That is because the Muslim Brotherhood were a strong force inside the syndicate's scene.

Doctor Badr Hilmi confirmed that there exist clusters of the Brotherhood who entered the syndicate which led to a presence of Christian clusters, which made working at the syndicate impossible, due to the existence of religion inside the syndicate.