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17. Liberals' split helped political Islam groups advance

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
48
Article number: 
17
Article pages: 
10
Date of source: 
December 1, 2011
Author: 
'Ādil al-Darjalī
Reviewer: 
‘Amr al-Misrī
Article summary: 

Leaders of several parties agreed that the early indicators of the first round of the parliamentary elections, which showed progress by political Islam currents, were expected but declined to give expectations on the impact of this progress on the next two stages of voting.

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Counselor Mustafá al-Tawīl, the honorary president of al-Wafd Party, attributed the religious groups' garnering of a large number of votes to the fact that they have been the only ones that had presence in the street for nearly 60 years.

"The high rates of poverty and unemployment brought the street to seek more piety…and that is why the change will not likely change much in the next two rounds because the religious current has already ascended," said Tawīl.

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