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The presidential election is likely to go ahead but pitched battles over the new constitution are set to continue

Political turmoil has followed the rejection of several candidates for the presidential election, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s Khairat el Shater and the Salafist hopeful, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail. It threatens to increase. Legal challenges are striking at the Constitutional Assembly and even Parliament itself as violence on the streets shows signs of persisting....

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Keywords:

Khairat el Shater, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, Mohamed Mursi, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Ahmed Nashaat, Amr Moussa, Alaa el Aswani, Mohamed el Baradei, Court challenges, Magdy el Agaty, Dawa al Salafiya, Jama’a el Islamiya

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