FJP competes for 80 percent of parliament seats

Saturday 28-07-2012 03:01 PM
FJP competes for 80 percent of parliament seats

Pro-Freedom and Justice Party rally in Cairo, photo by Muhammad Abd al-Ghani, Reuters

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) began preparing for the battle of the upcoming parliamentary elections where it competes for 80 percent of parliamentary seats.

The party is about to finish preparing its candidate lists for the forthcoming parliamentary elections after the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that the formation of the People’s Assembly is unconstitutional, al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported what it called informed sources as saying.

The party seeks to compete for 80 percent of the parliament seats, the sources that declined to be named said.

Mourad Ali, President Mohamed Mursi’s former media advisor, is expected to compete in the elections against member of the dissolved parliament Mohamed Abu Hamed.

One of al-Zomor family top figures will also compete in the elections against ex-MP Mostafa Bakri . Several members of the family belong to the ultra-Islamist movement including one of the killers of former president Anwar al-Sadat.

Khairat al-Shater, deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood, declined the post of deputy prime minister which led the brotherhood to consider nominating him in the elections, the sources added.

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