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Egypt: Opposition opts for boycott

By on December 3, 2010
The main Egyptian opposition, Islamist and secular, have decided to withdraw from the current legislatives, leaving the NDP the only player in the second round this Sunday. The Muslim Brotherhood, the first opposition party claims the election was rigged in favour of President Hosni Mubarak’s governing NDP party.

They justified their withdrawal because the election was marred by forgery and violence, and described the process as “scandalous”. The Wafd, the largest opposition secular party, has also decided to withdraw in protest against the voting, where 209 seats of 221 went to the NDP, thus wining 94.5% of the seats in the first round. That has pushed the independent newspaper, “Al-Masri Al-Yom” to say: If a party is wining all elections for thirty years without any exception, it means that fraud has become an integral part of the structure of the plan; as well as the United states, a close ally of Egypt and one of its main supporters, said they were “disappointed” at the way the poll was conducted. The Egyptian government has rejected that statement as an unacceptable interference in its internal affairs. For the NDP, the problem of weak political parties in Egypt is that they seek to make their mistakes on the backs of others. The NDP is not responsible for their failure. It is only responsible for the victory of its candidates.

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