Cairo - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's party won more than 85 per cent of the seats in parliament following a month of voting that ended on Tuesday, the Interior Minister, Mr Habib al-Adli, said.
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) has won 388 of parliament's 454 seats, or 85.46 per cent of the total, Mr Adli said in a statement read yesterday on state television.
He said four legal opposition parties had won a total of 17 seats: seven for the liberal Wafd Party, six for the Marxist Tagammu party, three for the Arab-Socialist Nasserite party and one for the Al-Ahrar party. He said 37 independent candidates had also won, but did not give a figure for the number of successful Islamist candidates.
At least 17 of those 37 were Muslim Brotherhood members running as independent candidates to get round a ban on their movement, according to the Brotherhood.
--(AFP)