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Behind the Egyptian Election Results


(The National-Abu Dhabi) - Issandr El Amrani - The opinion polls' biggest failure was to accurately predict Amr Moussa's dismal performance. The former secretary-general of the Arab League spent months as the frontrunner and benefited from the best name-recognition of any candidate, but ended with under 11%. The number of voters who chose to vote neither for the Muslim Brotherhood nor an establishment figure, about 40-45%, indicates there is wide room for a political alternative to these two camps. Hamdeen Sabbahi, a populist who came in third, benefitted from being the only non-Islamist, non-former regime major candidate.
2012-05-31 00:00:00
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