After lamenting an emphatic Islamist victory in Egypt's parliamentary elections’ first round, as well as the paltry shares of candidates representing their views and ideologies, Egyptian liberals breathed a sigh of relief upon the ouster of several key Salafist figures in the first round runoffs.
Al-Nour Party competed during the first runoff elections for 27 seats in Cairo, Alexandria, Assiut, Luxor, Kafr El-Sheikh, Port Said, Fayoum and Damietta. Much to its disappointment, however, the biggest Salafist party only secured five seats overall out of the eight governorates.
The runoff results were taken as a pleasant surprise for leftists and secularists, who have had butterflies in their stomachs since Al-Nour emerged as the second biggest winner in the first round, having seized 25 per cent of the votes.
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