Egyptian Election Results, Tunisian Election Results

427 out of 498 seats in the lower house of parliament have been decided. Enough seats are now in to know the result.  If you thought you would get a cosy, "West-friendly" result you were entirely mistaken: about 70% of the seats will be in the hands of extreme Islamists.  The following table covers the top six parties and is adapted from Jadaliyya:


Estimated Seat Breakdown (as of 9 January 2012)

Party/Coalition	Total Seats	%Seats
Freedom and Justice^	193	45.20
Al-Nour^^	108	25.29
Al-Wafd	38	8.90
Egyptian Bloc^^^	30	7.03
RDP	11	2.58
Revolution Continues	10	2.34

The Freedom and Justice party: is a front for the extreme Islamist "Muslim Brotherhood".

Al Nour: established in the wake of the 25 January uprising, Al-Nour (“The Light”) Party is the largest of Egypt’s three licensed Salafist parties (the other two being Al-Asala and Al-Fadila Parties). It was established by Al-Da‘wa Al-Salafiyya (“The Salafist Call”), Egypt’s largest Salafist group, commonly known as Al-Daawa Movement. Al-Daawa started in Alexandria where it now enjoys a considerable following. Salafism, also known as Wahhabism, is the extreme Islamist sect that underpins the most extreme forms of Islamism. Osama Bin Laden was a Wahhabi.

Tunisian Election Results (from Tunisia-Live.net)

Total 217 seats, major parties shown below.

Party/Coalition	Total Seats
Ennahda	91
CPR	30
Aridha Chaabia	19
Ettakatol	21
PDP	17

Ennahda: an Islamist party.  Prime minister Hamadi Jebeli, then secretary-general of Ennahda, at a rally in the city of Sousse: "referred to the present time as “a divine moment in a new state, and in hopefully a 6th Caliphate,” and that “the liberation of Tunisia will, God willing, bring about the liberation of Jerusalem.”  " Tunisia Live.net
Salafist (Wahhabi) parties were banned from the elections and Wahhabis infiltrated the remaining Islamic parties.

CPR: Secularist party.


See:

The roots of Islamic terrorism: the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia.

New Year predictions for 2012