The Egypt 2011/12 Election Thread

[The Mikado]

Courtesy the Something Awful thread on the Arab Spring, the final results of the first (of three) waves of voting is in:

(Ham's actually posting this from Cairo: if you disagree with his assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood...well...a lot of people do, but he actually sees them):

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[The Mikado]

Salafists are Leftist and the Egyptian Bloc are Rightist?

He put each party on a religious/social axis (Islamist/secular) and an economic axis (left/right).  His description of the Salafists regards their economic views.

As for Egyptian Bloc, Ham's logic was that it's a coalition of three parties, two left one right, with nothing in common but support of secularism and anti-Muslim Brotherhood.  He said that the right party in the blocis the dominant one.