Egyptian presidential election, 2005

The presidential election in Egypt in 2005, held on 7 September 2005, was the first presidential election in Egyptian history, in several different candidates competed against each other.

The incumbent President Hosni Mubarak won a fifth consecutive terms this time, where he received according to official results 88.6 % of the vote. Mubarak's rival candidate, Ayman Nour of the al - Ghad party, was about 7.3 %, while Numan Gumaa received by the New Wafd Party 2.8% of the vote. Foregoing opinion polls showed estimates that Nour could get about 30 % of the vote. Criticism of the electoral process focused on the process of the selection of eligible candidates and to alleged election law violations during the voting sequence. According to critics, the elections for which no official international observers were allowed were accompanied by serious irregularities. Mubarak was sworn in for his new term on September 27.

Candidates

The presidential election was the first multi - candidate election in the history of the presidency of Hosni Mubarak. After Mubarak, however, had announced his reelection on 28 July 2005, protested on 30 and 31 July in downtown Cairo, hundreds of opposition supporters against his policies, accompanied by the violent crackdown by security forces against the demonstrators; about 20 people were arrested.

A total of ten parties were able to participate in the election; the leading candidates were:

  • Hosni Mubarak of the National Democratic Party
  • Numan Gumaa of the New Wafd Party
  • Ayman Nour of the al - Ghad Party

In addition to occurred:

  • Wahid al - Uqsuri of the Egyptian Arab Socialist Party ( excluded on 3 September )
  • Osama Schaltut of the Solidarity Party
  • Ahmad al - Sabahi of the Umma Party
  • Rifaat al - Agrudi of the National Reconciliation Party
  • Fawzi Ghaza of the Party of Egypt in 2000
  • Mamdouh Qinawi of the Constitutional Party

Suffrage

For the first time in the history of the country a number of candidates for president were admitted for constitutional reform. What President Mubarak had described as a milestone in the procedure initiated under pressure from the United States reform and democratization process had been criticized by the opposition, since the amendment of the ruling NDP Mubarak in fact acknowledged a monopoly.

Until the 2005 presidential election and the Egyptians could merely a candidate who has been nominated by the Parliament of Egypt, to accept or reject. Since the Parliament, however, was dominated by the National Democratic Party, Mubarak was re-elected by such a referendum four times in his 24-year tenure. The turnout was therefore generally very low ( about 10 %).

Expiration

The election campaign for the election campaign began on 17 August 2005 and held only briefly until 4 September of the same year. At the same time, a paradigm shift hinted at during the election campaign: After a quarter century of Mubarak's rule provided a significant part of the population openly its policy of hard hand and his consistently with military, never run with arguments - political means confrontation with Islamism in question. On 18 July 2005, a broad opposition coalition from such diverse groups as the Muslim Brotherhood, the New Wafd Party and the movement Kifaya ( Enough ) called for a boycott of the elections. Prominent potential candidates as women's rights activist Nawal Saadawi and human rights activist Saadeddin Ibrahim withdrew their application for the presidential election. The candidate had been started in November 2004, the liberal al - Ghad Party, Ayman Only, however, came with the choice. Against him the end of June, a process was opened by election documents for alleged forgery.

9865 polling stations were open until 22:00 clock on Wednesday, 7 September 2005, so that the voters could cast their ballots until then.

Result

One day after the election on September 7, on 8 September 2005, showed the preliminary election results show that incumbent Hosni Mubarak won more than 70% and Ayman Nour 12 % of the vote. Noman Gumaa other hand, was 5-7%.

When choosing Mubarak was confirmed with 88.6 % of the vote in office. His toughest competitor among the nine opposition candidates, Ayman Nour, only came to 7.6%. The turnout was reported to be 23%:

Shura Council
659746
de