Word: wafd
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME reporters touring in and around Cairo throughout the election observed mostly orderly voting procedures. ?In all fairness, everything went very smoothly today,? said Emadeddin Mohammed Ahmed, an observer for the New Wafd party at the Mohammed Ali secondary school in the Sayeda Zeinab district of Cairo...
...activists call trumped-up charges of forgery relating to the formation of his new Al Ghad (Tomorrow) Party. Despite private objections from the Bush administration, his trial is scheduled to go ahead after the election. The other prominent challenger is law professor Noaman Gomaa, 71, leader of the New Wafd Party, a nationalist group formed in 1919 that promises to liberalize the economy and enact political reforms. The Muslim Brotherhood, a banned but tolerated group with widespread appeal among Egyptians (its candidates, run as independents, constitute the biggest single opposition bloc in parliament) called on its supporters to vote...