Skip to main content

Election fever hits Egypt


Election fever hits Egypt - The parliamentary elections will be held in late November but the 2011 presidential elections are already the talk of the town in Cairo. Will Hosni Moubarak, who's ruled the country for the last 29 years, seek a seventh term in office? Will his son Gamal, a business man turned politician, inherit the power as many analysts and opponents suspect? Will Mohamed El baradei, former director of the IAEA, manage to lift the legal obstacles to his candidacy to Egypt's top job?

Popular posts from this blog

Sudan poll boycott threatens peace

AlJazeeraEnglish — April 06, 2010 — South Sudan's main political party has announced a partial boycott of the elections scheduled for April 11. The Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has withdrawn its candidates from local and parliamentary polls in North Sudan.  A History of Modern Sudan