Soldiers assisted a woman before she cast her vote during runoff elections yesterday at a polling station in Cairo. Returns will determine about a third of Parliament’s 498 seats.
(Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters)
Egypt’s leading party speaks of ‘harmony’ with army
Military insists it will appoint prime minister
Soldiers assisted a woman before she cast her vote during runoff elections yesterday at a polling station in Cairo. Returns will determine about a third of Parliament’s 498 seats.
(Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters)
The leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group expected to dominate the country’s next parliament, said it does not seek to get into a power struggle with the ruling military council over the formation of the next government. Egypt’s military, which took control of the country from Hosni Mubarak upon his ouster in February, is insisting that it - not the parliament - will choose the next prime minister and his Cabinet, setting the stage for a contest over who will chart the nation’s future course.
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