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January 23, 2012

Muslim Brotherhood Heads New Egyptian Parliament 
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Egypt's parliament opened today for the first time since a historic free
election put the Muslim Brotherhood in a leadership role after years of
repression under deposed former president Hosni Mubarak. In the recent
elections, the once-banned Brotherhood won 47 percent of the seats in
the lower house of parliament. The Islamist Nur party won an additional
29 percent of the seats. The new parliament is meeting today just two
days ahead of the first anniversary of the Jan. 25 protests in Tahrir
Square that sparked the Egyptian revolution.



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