01.12.2011 05.Kislev. 5772
Analyse:
Islamists jump gun in claiming poll win
"All parties can agree on dislike for Israel," expert says from Cairo.
Official results from Egypt’s parliamentary election won’t start trickling in until Thursday, but the Muslim Brotherhood jumped the gun on Wednesday by announcing it expects to receive 40 percent of the vote.
With ex-president Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party banned and liberals in disarray, the announcement was telling in revealing the Islamist party as the only one sanguine enough over its election prospects to hazard a guess….