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Runoff for parliamentary elections in nine governorates today By YOUM7 STAFF – Translated by AMANY SABER Runoff of the first phase of the parliamentary elections will be held in nine Egyptian governorates today December 5. Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said, Red Sea, Kafr el- Sheikh, Asyut, Luxor and Fayoum will have polling stations ready for the voters. It is going to be a matter of whether the Muslim Brotherhood -affiliated Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) will sweep the runoffs or an electoral fight will stay as dispute between political forces. There will be a total of 45 FJP candidates participating in the runoffs today. Meanwhile those who won the first phase in the elections, such as Amr Hamzawi , Akram al-Shaer and Mostafa el-Barry already have their parliamentary membership cards. They completed their personal data in People’s Assembly hall. The competition between the FJP and ...

Court case against Gamal Mubarak delayed By NIRMEEN SOLIMAN - Translated by NOURHAN MAGDI Monday, the Cairo Economic Court delayed a lawsuit filed by a researcher at Helwan University against son of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak , to Jan. 2. Gamal Mubarak was accused of stealing a research project of the researcher, Farag Ghanim, for the New Urban Plan for Cairo 2020. The lawsuit said Ghanim submitted the urban plan to Mubarak in 2006. He was surprised by a press campaign in 2007 referring to Mubarak’s project as the National Project of “Egypt 2050”. “Gamal attributed the project to himself, which is a violation of my rights,” said Ghanim. The lawsuit was filed against Gamal Mubarak, the former Prime Minister, the former Minister of Housing, and the Head of Urban planning Institute, calling for compensation.

Final list of new ministers delayed for elections: Ganzouri By YOUM7 STAFF - Translated by NOURHAN MAGDI CAIRO: Prime Minister-Designate Kamal el-Ganzouri said he cannot announce the final names of the new ministers two days before the appointment of the new Interior Minister. Ganzouri said he mentioned before that the announcement of the new ministers’ names is delayed due to the parliamentary elections, because Prime Minister Essam Sharaf ’s government resigned two days before elections began. “It can be announced amid the elections and also due to the repeated meetings with the political trends and parties,” said Ganzouri. He refused to answer questions about his meeting with Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Shahin, a member of Egypt’s ruling military council. Concerning Youm7’s question about the timeline of amending the clause in the constitutional declaration to provide Ganzouri with full executiv...

Egypt liberals try to salvage win after Islamist rout By SAMER AL-ATRUSH, AFP CAIRO - In Cairo's leafy Zamalek district, liberal Egyptians trickled into polling stations from the morning to salvage a victory in run offs on Monday for a parliament Islamists appeared poised to dominate. Ten months after president Hosni Mubarak 's overthrow by an uprising driven by secular youths, liberals say they feel that their way of life is threatened by fundamentalist Islamist groups sweeping the polls. "I voted for (liberal candidate Mohammed Abu) Hammad. If he doesn't win here, I don't know where liberals will win," Amr al-Gidawi told AFP at a polling station in Zamalek, home to rich and foreign diplomats. "I'm worried about decisions that would be taken against our way of life. We don't want a radical change in our way of life," the corporate lawyer said.

Egypt runoff exposes tensions between Islamists By BEN HUBBARD,Associated Press CAIRO — A runoff Monday for Egypt's first-round parliamentary elections exposed tensions between competing Islamist parties that have so far dominated the vote. In the southern province of Assiut, supporters of the hardline Islamist Gamaa Islamiya attacked and chased away campaign workers from the Muslim Brotherhood outside a polling station where the two groups were facing off in a vote. Supporters of one Brotherhood candidate said they received death threats and one of their clerics was beaten up by campaign workers of Gamaa Islamiya — an ex-militant group now running a political party.