(New York Times) Michael Slackman - The Muslim Brotherhood may be banned, but it has demonstrated in the latest parliamentary elections that it is by far the strongest Egyptian opposition group, trouncing the secular political opposition and weakening the governing party's power monopoly. Results released Sunday showed the Brotherhood winning 29 more seats on Saturday for the second round of parliamentary voting. It won 47 seats in the first round. With one more round to go, the Brotherhood already has 76 seats - more than five times its total in the departing parliament. Mubarak's governing National Democratic Party has already won 195 seats. Turnout was low, often 10-25%. Political analysts said the Brotherhood's success was at least partly a function of the absence of any other organized political opposition.
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