{"id":2122,"date":"2012-05-26T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2012-05-26T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:20:10","slug":"muslim-brotherhood-urges-poll-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/05\/26\/2122\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Brotherhood Urges Poll Alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/muslim_brotherhoods_poll.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood called Egyptian political forces on Friday, May 25, to talks on ways to &#8220;save&#8221; the revolution ahead of a presidential election run-off it says will pit its candidate against Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s last prime minister.  <!--more-->  <br \/> \u201cWe have to cooperate to build our country,\u201d said Essam el-Erian, the deputy head of the Brotherhood&#8217;s political party in a news conference on Friday night.<br \/> \u201cMohamed Mursi, the Brotherhood&#8217;s presidential candidate, has contacted other presidential candidates and party leaders and invited them to a meeting on Saturday.\u201d<br \/>Egypt started counting votes late Thursday after a two-day election to choose a new president to replace autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in a popular revolt last year.<br \/>Counting started after polls closed at 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) with no reliable exit polls available, Reuters reported.<br \/>Counting the votes, the Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate in Egypt&#8217;s first free presidential vote would go through a run-off next month against Shafiq.<br \/>Though the final results will only be confirmed officially next Tuesday, representatives of the candidates were allowed to watch the count, enabling them to compile their own tally.<br \/>The run-off is planned for June 16 and 17.<br \/>The election marks a crucial step in a messy and often bloody transition to democracy, overseen by a military council that has pledged to hand power to a new president by July 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brotherhood candidate received an apparent boost to his campaign later on Friday when a rival Islamist candidate, Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, called on voters to \u201cconfront the corrupt regime.\u201d<br \/>While he did not directly endorse Mursi, his words clearly directed against Shafiq who had held office under Mubarak.<br \/>&#8220;We will build a national revolutionary consensus on all the current political issues and form a single front against the symbols of corruption, injustice and tyranny,&#8221; he said in a statement quoted by Agence France Presse (AFP).<br \/>&#8220;Our revolution will be victorious and Egypt will be strong, God willing.&#8221;<br \/>The Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned during the Mubarak years, now dominates Egypt&#8217;s political landscape.<br \/>It already holds nearly half of the seats in parliament, becoming the largest bloc after victories in elections late last year.<br \/>The group has promised to fight corruption, but also to introduce Islamic Shari`ah law to a greater extent.<br \/>The presidential elections are meant to be the last step towards restoring civilian to rule to Egypt, which has been governed by a military council since Mubarak stepped down in February 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: OnIslam &amp; News Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood called Egyptian political forces on Friday, May 25, to talks on ways to &#8220;save&#8221; the revolution ahead of a presidential election run-off it says will pit its candidate against Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s last prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Muslim Brotherhood Urges Poll Alliances - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2012\/05\/26\/2122\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Muslim Brotherhood Urges Poll Alliances - SunniOnline\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood called Egyptian political forces on Friday, May 25, to talks on ways to &#8220;save&#8221; 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