Brotherhood leading election in Egypt

But liberal and hard-line Islamic rivals competitive

Election officials counted ballots in Cairo yesterday for the parliamentary elections. (Amr Nabil/Associated Press)

By Maggie Michael

Associated Press / December 1, 2011

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was leading in initial, partial results from Egypt’s parliamentary elections but it was facing stiff competition in many places both from more hard-line Islamic groups and from a liberal-secular alliance, judges overseeing counting said yesterday. The trend from results so far mirrored expectations that the Brotherhood, Egypt’s most powerful fundamentalist group, would make the strongest showing in the first parliament elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

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