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San Jose Mercury News
| 12 months ago
The two surviving candidates in Egypt's presidential election appealed Saturday for support from voters who rejected them as polarizing extremists in the first round even as they faced a new challenge from the third runner-up who contested the...
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Scoop
| 12 months ago
The Secretary-General has been following with interest Egypt's presidential election process, Mr. Ban's spokesperson said in a < "http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=6080" >statement. These historic elections, in which Egyptians will freely...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
Brotherhood seeks dialogue to 'save nation' Cairo: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement has urged country's political forces to participate in a national dialogue ahead of a tough battle between an Islamist candidate and a former government official...
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Arizona Republic
| 12 months ago
Egyptians went to the polls earlier this week to elect a new president after longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year. Amr Moussa, a former foreign minister and ex-head of the Arab League, had led opinion polls for months. However, he...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday hailed Egypt's presidential vote as "a major step forward in Egypt's democratic transition." "For the first time in history the Egyptian people have had the opportunity to choose their president in a...
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Associated Press
| 12 months ago
Partial results from Egypt's first genuinely competitive presidential elections announced Friday showed the candidate of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood leading with a narrow edge in a five-way race. This is likely to bring Mohammed Morsi to run-off...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
The corruption and hypocrisy which has come to characterise politics and politicians, and in particu... The University of Michigan law school and Northwestern University have just compiled a database of o... Today Tahrir Square is not the scene of...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
Candidates are contesting in the elections but there are three front runners, namely, former foreign minister and Arab League chief Amr Moussa, Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohammed Mursi and Muslim Brotherhood dissident, Abdelmumein Al Futuh. This...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Vote counting was underway in Egypt on Friday after two days of polling in a landmark presidential election which pitted stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule. The experience of waiting for a electoral result...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
Sultan spoke just hours before polling stations were to close on the second and final day of voting in the landmark election. Around 50 million eligible voters were choosing among 12 candidates, with the frontrunners divided between Islamists who say...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
The Egyptian presidential election appears to be democratic and competitive, but none of the major candidates were liberal democrats before the Arab Spring last year. Whoever wins, democratic activists will need to remain truly active. The first...
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Israel National News
| 12 months ago
in the first Egyptian presidential election since last year's ouster of Hosni Mubarak. Half an hour later, counting the ballots is scheduled to start. The governor of the Ash-Sharqiya District told Al-Arabiya that more than 70 percent of the voters...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 12 months ago
Nearly 50 million Egyptians are eligible to vote. Results for the election are expected May 29. If no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election will be held. While the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party now holds...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
ments Egyptian presidential election continues for second day If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote, there will be a two-day runoff election next month. By Tom Perry and Tom Pfeiffer, Reuters / May 24, 2012 Cairo Egyptians , choosing...
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The Courier-Mail
| 12 months ago
The turnout this morning was generally weaker than the previous day, when long lines formed outside polling centres more than an hour before they opened. The government has given employees today off to bolster the turnout. The two-day vote marked the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
Officials say the turnout on day two is still good, only slightly less than yesterday. The top two candidates from this week will go head to head in a runoff election in mid June, with a final result late next month. Pollsters say the high number of...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
It's an almost casual, certainly unscientific, observation but the people of Alexandria seem to be much more at ease and confident that at any time in the past two years. This is the fourth time that I've been to Egypt's second city in the past 15...
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Asia Times Online
| 12 months ago
There are five serious candidates among 13 choices for Egypt's 50 million eligible voters in the presidential election that is spread over Wednesday and Thursday, with analysts saying that voting results remain impossible to predict. Official results...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Polls opened for a second day across Egypt on Thursday in landmark presidential elections to choose a successor for president Hosni Mubarak who was ousted last year in a popular uprising. Small queues began to form outside schools when polling...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Egypt resumes its first free presidential election on Thursday after voting passed off mostly calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. The race...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
ments Egypt votes with hope and fear Egyptians took the the polls today in the first competitive presidential election in a lifetime, brought on by last year's populist uprising. By Hamza Hendawi and Lee Keath, The Associated Press / May 23, 2012...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
Awomen-only voting station on the west bank of the River Nile is an obvious place to gauge the state of female empowerment in post-revolutionary Egypt. Thousands of determined voters trooped in and out of the converted school in the Aguza district of...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
Eyder Peralta Polls have closed on a historic day in Egypt: For many it was the first time they had a say in who their leader will be. Hosni Mubarak, who ruled the country for 29 years, was ousted last year. And before him, for another 30 or so years,...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 12 months ago
Thursday May 24, 2012 Egyptians voted in the country's first free presidential elections, with Islamists and secularists vying for power with competing visions of an Egypt liberated from ousted president Hosni Mubarak's iron grip. After a slow start,...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
This week, I'll be answering your questions about Egypt's historic presidential elections here on Rendezvous...As I wrote today in the main article about the election: With the skies clear and the weather warm, long lines of people queued at polling...
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
The United States on Wednesday hailed the start of the first free presidential election in Egypt as a "very important milestone" in the country's transition to democracy. State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland called the event "historic" and "...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Egyptians went to the polls on Wednesday morning to elect a new president after the fall of ex-President Hosni Mubarak last year. May 23 (UPI) -- The U.S. government looks forward to a good working relationship with whichever presidential candidate...
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Israel National News
| 12 months ago
The powers of the president have yet to be determined in a future constitution. The military seems to want to maintain its powerful position. (BBC)
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
Kate Woodsome May 23, 2012 Millions of Egyptians are waiting in long lines to cast ballots in the first truly contested presidential election in almost six decades. About 50 million people are eligible to vote in the two-day process, which marks...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
Egyptians Begin Historic Vote A number of European and Western diplomats as well as international observers the electoral process in Egypt's first free presidential elections. Anne Patterson, US ambassador to Egypt, monitored some polling centres in...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
ments In historic election, Egyptians cast votes for stability, Islam Nearly a year and a half after the revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are getting to choose their president for the first time. By Kristen Chick, ...
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Democracy Now
| 12 months ago
A historic election is underway as Egyptians head to the polls for the first presidential election since their ouster of Hosni Mubarak. For the first time in the country's history the winner is not a foregone conclusion. We go to Cairo for an update...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Millions of Egypt ians will line up at polling stations on Wednesday and Thursday to vote in the first presidential elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, which some consider to be the first free presidential election in the country's long...
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Vanity Fair
| 12 months ago
Welcome, Egyptian citizens, to the joys of true participatory governmenta right you will never take for granted nor decline to exercise because your polling station is not near an express subway stop. Today Egyptians vote in the Arab world's first...
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War In Context
| 12 months ago
The man who takes the helm at this political transition, from sixty years of autocratic rule by military men to a representative democracy, will forever stand as a symbol of the popular uprising that forced the abdication of President Hosni Mubarak.
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Seattle Times
| 12 months ago
Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their vote in a historic election pitting old regime figures against ascending Islamists.
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B92
| 12 months ago
Polling stations are open in Egypt, where voters will elect the country's new president in the first presidential election since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. Egyptians line up to vote on Wednesday (Beta/AP) The country's ruling military council has...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
More than 50 million Egyptians are eligible to vote in the poll that will take place over two days. Polling booths opened at 8am (local time) and queues at some stations stretched down the street. Thirteen ministers are vying for the nation's top job...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
The polling stations opened at 8 am across the country under tight security. The elections would be the first since Mubarak was ousted following 18 days of demonstrations in Egypt in February 2011. He assumed the presidency in October 1981, following...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Forty million Egyptians were likely to vote in a presidential election advocates say will prove the anti-Mubarak-regime revolution meant true political change. The two-day election, expected to draw about 75 percent of Egypt's 53 million eligible...
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International Herald Tribune
| 12 months ago
Suhaib Salem/Reuters Soldiers stand guard as people wait outside a polling station in Cairo. Mohammed Salem/Reuters Egyptian women lined up to vote on Wednesday in Cairo. In the run-up to the ballot, there have been no reliable opinion surveys nor is...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
Egyptians vote on Wednesday for the first time to pick their president in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak. Polling stations opened across Egypt on Wednesday for the historic first...
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Mail and Guardian
| 12 months ago
The election is the final phase of a tumultuous transition overseen by the ruling military council after a popular uprising ousted long-time president Hosni Mubarak last year. After decades of pre-determined results, for the first time, the outcome...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Economy key to presidential vote 23 May 2012 Last updated at 01:30 ET Egyptians are preparing to head to the polls in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising. The election pits...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Around 50 million eligible Egypt ian citizens are set to elect their president for the first time in history. The voters are expected to turn out in huge numbers in this historic democratic process on Wednesday and Thursday. Share This Story The...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
39 Egyptians are set to vote in the country's first democratic presidential election. Fifty million people are eligible to cast their ballot and voter turnout is expected to be high as two days of voting begin on Wednesday.
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
A number of top contenders in Egypt's presidential election have been disqualified. Among the banned candidates are both Islamists and a Mubarak-era top official. Egyptian voters are heading to the polls to elect the country's new president. And with...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Egyptians are preparing to head to the polls in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising. Fifty million people can vote, and security is likely to be tight. The Supreme Council of the...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
Last summer I travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help establish the first free l... In recent days, Wired magazine in the US reported that a military officer and lecturer in a US prest... Suggested Topics Egypt's revolution will...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military tried Tuesday to allay fears that it would rig presidential elections in favour of its preferred candidates. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces insisted that it would not allow any "violations" of the first free vote for...
