/ 6 November 2000

MUBARAK WINS 80% OF SEATS AMID VIOLENCE

PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak’s party has secured more than 80% of the seats contested so far in Egypt’s legislative elections, a day after three people were shot dead in clashes at the polls. Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP) has won 233 of the 282 seats contested in the first two rounds of voting, despite inroads by Islamists who were all but absent from the last parliament. – AFP