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	Egyptian presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Egyptian presidential election of 2005, held on September 7, 2005, was the first allegedly contested presidential election in Egypt's history.
		The election was the first-ever multi-party election in the history of Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule.
		However, the Presidential Election Commission rejected his request as baseless on September 8, 2005, a decision that cannot be appealed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egyptian_presidential_election,_2005 (1695 words)

	Bush Congratulates President Mubarak, Egyptian People on Election, September 12, 2005
		The statements by both the secretary and the White House urged the Egyptian government to build on the progress made in the September 7 voting as it moves toward parliamentary elections in November.
		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received nearly 89 percent of the vote in the election.
		This election represents an important step toward holding fully free and fair competitive multi-party elections, and both supporters and opponents of the government have told us that it has occasioned a vigorous national debate in Egypt on important issues.
	www.usembassy.it /file2005_09/alia/a5090901.htm (642 words)

	Little contest in Egyptian election - The Boston Globe
		Disorganized and minimally trained election observers scrambled to polling stations throughout rural Egypt and the capital of Cairo to document widespread voting irregularities and some outright violations of the election law, according to independent and Egyptian monitoring groups.
		The coalition of Egyptian monitoring groups overseeing the elections said it had gathered evidence of other abuses as well: Unregistered voters were allowed to cast ballots for Mubarak, and some monitors were beaten or detained.
		Election monitors, many of them recent college graduates, said they had expected widespread fraud this time around, but still found the whole process educational.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/09/08/little_contest_in_egyptian_election (1145 words)

	September_2005 - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo survives the 2005 political crisis as the plenary session of the House of Representatives of the Philippines dropped the impeachment complaint filed against her.
		Egyptian presidential election, 2005: The first ever multi-party elections in Egypt are conducted, with incumbent President Hosni Mubarak expected to win a fifth six-year term.
		The Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005, held September 12, is set to be a very close race, according to pollsters.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=September_2005 (4625 words)

	The 2005 Egyptian Elections: How Free? How Important?
		It is the little-mentioned elections for parliament—likely to take place over several weeks in October and November—that will ultimately determine whether the new rules allow for truly competitive elections in the future, or whether they merely consolidate the grip of the ruling NDP over Egypt's political landscape.
		Egyptian law requires political parties to receive the approval of a Parties Committee, which until recently had to certify that a party's platform did not contradict Islamic law or the ideals of the 1952 revolution that overthrew the monarchy, and that it represented an agenda "distinct" from that of already existing parties.
		The main obstacle to meaningful multiparty elections, however, is not election day ballot fraud but the continued lack of political freedom and the atmosphere of intimidation of the press, opposition politicians, and the public.
	www.brookings.edu /views/papers/wittes/20050824.htm (3889 words)

	Elections in Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The President of the Republic is elected for a six-year term by popular vote.
		This election mechanism has been in place since a May 2005 amendment to the Egyptian Constitution.
		Elections in: Algeria • Angola • Benin • Botswana • Burkina Faso • Burundi • Cameroon • Cape Verde • Central African Republic • Chad • Comoros • Democratic Republic of the Congo • Republic of the Congo • Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) • Djibouti •
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Egypt (375 words)

	Egyptian Presidential Election
		Egypt’s presidential election represents one step in the march towards the full democracy that the Egyptian people desire and deserve.
		The process that culminated in the September 7 vote was characterized by freer debate, increased transparency, and improved access to the media, in contrast with previous polls.
		As Egypt looks towards parliamentary elections in November, we encourage Egyptians to build on progress made with this election and to address valid criticisms of the electoral process.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2005/52966.htm (310 words)

	Egypt
		Domestic election monitors and civil society groups were permitted, albeit only after the actual start of the polling, to observe the electoral process at some polling stations, and these groups were able to play a substantial oversight role despite operating in less-than-ideal conditions.
		Presidential candidates were required to submit nomination applications to the Presidential Election Commission (PEC), a nine-member quasi-judicial body tasked with approving candidates and supervising the presidential election.
		The Presidential Elections Law, as ratified by parliament, implemented the constitutional amendment and governed the presidential election on September 7.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61687.htm (18319 words)

	Egypt: Angus Reid Consultants
		In July, a group encompassing 8,000 Egyptian magistrates called for a boycott of the presidential and legislative ballots unless transparency was guaranteed by the government.
		The Presidential Election Commission allowed independent groups into polling stations "on condition that they do not interfere in or block the elections process." Mohammed El-Sawi of the EOHR expressed satisfaction with the decision, saying, "If the election would be fair and clean, I think they have nothing to hide."
		Egyptian officials had declared a 79 per cent turnout in the 1999 presidential referendum.
	www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8155 (1962 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Election campaign for the Palestinian Presidential election of 2005 - An ...
		This report deals with the election campaign for the Palestinian presidential election and violations of the regulations prescribed by the electoral law for campaigning.
		Before and during the election campaign for the Palestinian presidential election, IOF perpetrated a series of violations of human rights that directly impacted on the electoral process in general and the election campaign in particular.
		In addition, two candidates for the presidential election, 'Abdul Karim Shubair and al-Sayed Baraka, were prevented from traveling from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank and to move freely among electoral constituencies, in violation of their campaigning right.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6AG3BL?OpenDocument (1115 words)

	Agence Global - Article
		The thousands of judges who are supposed to oversee the voting process and verify the results asserted their independence from the government and the ruling party, and thus perhaps set the stage for a truly independent judicial oversight process in future votes.
		And the Egyptian citizenry found itself in the novel situation of hearing the views of competing candidates, even though the entire system was badly tilted in Mubarak’s favor.
		My own sense is that this flawed election would be useful as a step towards change only if it represented the beginning of a sustained process of transformation in other aspects of Egyptian political life, such as the media, parliament, civil society and civilian control of the military-security establishment.
	www.agenceglobal.com /Article.asp?Id=644 (933 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mubarak declared winner of Egyptian presidential election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The low participation reflected widespread skepticism among Egyptians over the government's claims that the election opens the door to greater democratic reform — and apathy over a vote that Mubarak was certain to win.
		The election was the first-ever in which Mubarak faced a competitor after years of being re-elected as the sole candidate in "yes-no" referendums.
		On Thursday, Nour demanded the election be repeated because of the allegations, but the commission — which reform-minded judges have accused of being dominated by the government — rejected the request.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-08-egypt-election_x.htm?csp=36 (656 words)

	Global Insight // Same-day Analysis
		The election result is therefore a foregone conclusion, although the regime will be hoping for a relatively high turnout in order to claim an added degree of legitimacy.
		With a list of 10 presidential candidates to choose from, 32 million voters could be forgiven for thinking that the weight of destiny was on their shoulders.
		With Mubarak at the helm of Egyptian politics since the assassination of his predecessor Anwar Sadat in 1981, his election make-over has capitalised on his strong leadership credentials at a time of national and regional uncertainty.
	www.globalinsight.com /SDA/SDADetail2232.htm (1468 words)

	Austin Bay Blog » Egyptian vote disputes
		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s main rival in presidential elections, Ayman Nour of the liberal Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, said on Saturday the official vote count was fraudulent.
		One of the most common forms of cheating in Egyptian elections is to take large groups of people around from polling station to polling station and persuade the officials to let them vote, even if they are not registered in that district.
		The election was a serious blow to Gomaa’s Wafd Party, which dominated Egyptian politics until the military overthrew the monarchy in 1952 and then reformed in the 1970s.
	austinbay.net /blog?p=573 (1011 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Guide to Egypt's election
		Egyptians go to the polls on 7 September in round one of the country's first ever multi-candidate presidential election.
		Egyptians over 18 are required to vote by law.
		An independent Egyptian organisation known as "Shayfinku", or "We are watching you", has also announced its intention to monitor the poll.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4192438.stm (521 words)

	Cairo opposition paper views loopholes in Egyptian presidential election bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wafd Party member Khayri Qalaj objected to the shortening of the election campaigning to three weeks only, which he said are not enough for the nominee to reach out to voters in 26 governorates, 4,000 villages, hamlets and a population of 72 million people.
		The presidential election draft law included no reference to the word "press" throughout its article, apparently in an attempt to avoid talking about the state-owned press, the impartiality of the press, and the need for the newspapers to allocate equal space to publishing news about the presidential candidates.
		Checking the identity of voters was not referred to in the draft law, even though it permitted voters to cast their ballots in any polling station and not necessarily in the polling station where their names are registered.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/printer_1015133.php (699 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Egypt votes in landmark election
		Egyptians are voting in the country's first contested presidential election, which incumbent, Hosni Mubarak, is widely expected to win.
		On the face of it, Egyptians are spoilt for choice as they can select a new president from 10 candidates, says the BBC's Heba Saleh in Cairo.
		He is the only leader the majority of Egyptians have known and most of his challengers are not even taken seriously as politicians.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4221080.stm (614 words)

	Reason: Liberal Thought in the Arab Age: Egypt's election and the fatal hang-up of Arab liberals
		The Egyptian election raised interesting questions for Arab liberals, particularly those who insist that reform must be driven "from within," as opposed to being significantly advanced by a democratically aggressive West, in particular the United States.
		The pessimists argued that Mubarak's shameless manipulation of the election process, his government's decision to bar independent election monitors, his endeavor to use competitive voting to deny representation while winning the appearance of legitimacy, showed that Arab despots can be maliciously creative in exploiting and undermining democratic institutions.
		Institutionally, competitive presidential elections have become a reality, allowing candidates to emerge in the future more popular than the nine men who stood against Mubarak this time around, so that Egyptians will have a chance to challenge disliked incumbents.
	www.reason.com /links/links090805.shtml (1325 words)

	RTE News - Mubarak wins Egyptian presidential election
		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has won a fifth term in office with 88.6% of votes cast in the country's first multi-candidate presidential election.
		Forced voting, paid voters, unmanned polling stations, missing indelible ink and the use of public transport to ferry voters to polling stations were some of the accusations levelled against Mubarak supporters on election day.
		But the electoral commission was satisfied with the polling process and many observers, while acknowledging some irregularities, took heart in the fact that Egypt's first brush with democracy passed without any major incidents.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/0910/egypt.html?rss (185 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Egyptian judges to supervise election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Egypt's judges have decided to take part in the supervision of the 7 September presidential poll but warned they would not endorse its result if their demands for more transparency were not met.
		The assembly of the judges - some of whom had favoured a boycott - known as Egyptian Judges' Club was tipped on Friday as an important measure of the credibility of Egypt's first ever contested presidential election.
		They also demanded that recently appointed state prosecutors be excluded from the judges' monitoring contingent, that a copy of the results for each polling station be handed to party delegates and that the decision to expel 2000 judges from the syndicate be annuled.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/FDC81A50-8249-4F75-B951-C4B524208948.htm (589 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Private Groups May Monitor Egypt Election
		An Egyptian court ruled Saturday that non-governmental groups will be allowed to monitor the nation's first multi-candidate presidential election next week.
		Mubarak said Egyptian non-governmental groups were ``guaranteed'' to be allowed to follow the vote, adding that foreign and local media would also be present.
		They include an article requiring independent presidential aspirants to collect 250 signatures from parliament and local councils dominated by Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party for their nomination to be accepted.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/09/04/62229_.html (401 words)

	JURIST - Paper Chase: Egyptian judges raise doubts over final presidential election figures
		Chris Buell at 4:14 PM ET [JURIST] Egyptian judges have raised questions about the accuracy of the final results in September's presidential election, although they said that any irregularities did not affect the outcome of the race.
		The report said that delegates for some candidates were blocked from some polling stations and that voting restrictions were relaxed at some polling stations when large groups of people arrived in state vehicles.
		The report concluded that the alleged violations would not have changed the outcome of the country's first contested presidential election, in which incumbent President Hosni Mubarak [official profile; BBC News profile] won with 89 percent of the vote.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /paperchase/2005/11/egyptian-judges-raise-doubts-over.php (362 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Egypt \| Will they run?
		Although the opposition has long battled for constitutional reform that allows open presidential elections, leading party members said it is unlikely they will nominate a candidate to contest incumbent President Hosni Mubarak's likely bid for a fifth term.
		The elections are due in September and there is little time for an opposition candidate to prepare.
		Members of opposition parties also give a long list of impediments, ranging from a serious shortage in funds and human resources to a serious lack of political freedoms and the need for more details on the mechanisms by which the dramatic move announced by Mubarak on Saturday is to be put into effect.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/732/eg7.htm (1203 words)

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