EGYPT: PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK SET TO WIN A FIFTH SIX YEAR TERM IN OFFICE AS VOTERS PREPARE TO GO TO THE POLLS
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EGYPT: PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK SET TO WIN A FIFTH SIX YEAR TERM IN OFFICE AS VOTERS PREPARE TO GO TO THE POLLS
- Title: EGYPT: PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK SET TO WIN A FIFTH SIX YEAR TERM IN OFFICE AS VOTERS PREPARE TO GO TO THE POLLS
- Date: 19th September 2005
- Summary: (W3) CAIRO, EGYPT (SEPTEMBER 5, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE AUDIENCE CLAPPING AS EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK SPEAK SAYS TO PRESS IN FRONT OF ABDEEN PALACE SAYING: "I will enter this election, brothers and sons, to be with you in the heart of the coming period including its problems, its challenges and its ambitions. I am entering this election with a clear view dealing with these problems." 2. AUDIENCE HOLDING PICTURES OF MUBARAK AND SHOUTING: "WE SHALL SACRIFICE OUR BLOOD AND SOUL FOR MUBARAK, MUBARAK" (VARIOUS) 3. WIDE AUDIENCE LISTENING TO SPEECH OF EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK 1.01 4. WIDE CROWDS AROUND AYMAN NOUR HEAD OF GHAD PARTY; WIDE AYMAN NOUR HEAD OF GHAD PARTY TAKING NOTES FROM PEOPLE TO HELP THEM 1.15 5. WIDE EXTERIOR OF COURT BUILDING WITH PEOPLE WAITING FOR AYMAN NOUR HEAD OF GHAD PARTY (VARIOUS) 1.23 6. MV AUDIENCE CARRYING AYMAN NOUR HEAD OF GHAD PARTY AFTER COMING OUT OF JAILL WIDE BANNERS OF AYMAN NOUR HEAD OF GHAD PARTY IN THE STREET 7. WIDE AYMAN NOUR HEAD OF THE GHAD PARTY AND AUDIENCE APPLAUDING HIM AFTER HIS SPEECH 1.43 8. WIDE NOAMAN GOMAA HEAD OF WAFD PARTY WALKING THROUGH THE CROWD WITH AUDIENCE AROUND HIM SHOUTING: "WHERE IS THE PRESS, THE PRESIDENT IS HERE"; WIDE AUDIENCE HOLDING PICTURESL; WIDE NOAMNA GOMAA HEAD OF WAFD PARTY AND AUDIENCE CLAPPING FOR HIM AND SHOUTING: "WHERE IS THE PRESS, THE PRESIDENT IS HERE"; WIDE AUDIENCE LISTENING TO THE SPEECH OF NOAMAN GOMAA HEAD OF WAFD PARTY (VARIOUS) 2.19 (W3) CAIRO, EGYPT (SEPTEMBER 6, 2005) (REUTERS) 9. WIDE DIYAA RASHWAN, POLITICAL ANALYST, FROM AL AHRAM RESEARCH CENTRE SITTING IN HIS OFFICE; WIDE JOURNALIST WRITING IN NOTE PAD 2.25 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIYAA RASHWAN, POLITICAL ANALYST, FROM AL AHRAM RESEARCH CENTRE SAYING "The result of the election means who will be president, surely it will be President Mubarak and we have many reasons to say Mubarak will be the president of Egypt. One of those reasons are that Mubarak has not really advertised, in this election, all the others are very weak people some of them for the first time to be known by Egyptians. Also to be in power for the twenty four years with stability, progress and everything in Egypt that means you are a strong man. I think Mubarak will be elected by eighty percent less or more." 3.10 11. WIDE SIGNS SUPPORTING EGYPTIAN HOSNI MUBARAK IN THE STREETS; WIDE BANNER DEPICTING EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK DRAPED ON A BUILDING; WIDE SIGNS SUPPORTING HEAD OF WAFD PARTY NOAMAN GOMAA (VARIOUS) 3.47 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIYAA RASHWAN, POLITICAL ANALYST, FROM AL AHRAM RESEARCH CENTRE SAYING "I think that concerning the turn over the participation of Egyptian it will not be strong. It will be as usual weak." 3.57 13. SCU JOURNALIST WRITING ON NOTE PAD 4.00 14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIYAA RASHWAN, POLITICAL ANALYST, FROM AL AHRAM RESEARCH CENTRE SAYING "In this time I expect that the turn over will be about 20-25% of Egyptians not more" 4.07 15. WIDE PEOPLE WALKING DOWN A STREET; WIDE COFFEE SHOP EXTERIOR WITH MEN SITTING; MV MAN SMOKING PIPE; MV MAN DRINKING; SLV MEN AT COFFEE SHOP (VARIOUS) 4.49 16. HAS SIGN OF AYMAN NOUR HEAD OF GHAD PARTY AT TOP OF A BUILDING ZOOM OUT 4.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
- Country: Egypt
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- Story Text: Egyptians prepare to go to polling booths with Mubarak set to win a fifth six-year term in office.
As Egypt gets ready to vote for a new president on Wednesday
(September 7, 2005), most have little doubt that President Hosni Mubarak will score
a comfortable victory.
On Wednesday, he faces contested presidential elections for the first
time, against an array of nine other candidates and is widely expected to win
his fifth six-year term in office.
Mubarak has campaigned on his record of economic development and
political stability and promised more political and economic liberalisation if
he wins.
The Egyptian leader, who has been a force for stability for 24 years
as leader, has promoted peace abroad and some economic reforms at home but
trodden with extreme caution in opening up domestic politics.
But his critics say that economic growth has been too slow and that he
has expanded political freedoms half-heartedly and only in response to foreign
and domestic pressure.
His main rivals are two liberals, Ayman Nour, 40 of the Ghad
(Tomorrow) Party and Noman Gomaa, 71, of the Wafd Party.
But critics say the race is skewed in Mubarak's favour. Tough election
rules prevented the popular but banned Muslim Brotherhood fielding a
candidate. Most of Mubarak's rivals are little known politicians from minor
parties.
Many Egyptians have said they would not bother to vote because they are
not convinced that the voting will be fair and free. Judges and civil society
groups say all past elections have been rigged and many say they are not yet
convinced that the voting will be free and fair.
Diyaa Rashwan, a political analyst from Al Ahram Research Centre
said: "I think that concerning the turn over the participation of
Egyptian it will not be strong. It will be as usual weak"
"In this time I expect that the turn over will be about 20-25% of
Egyptians not more," Rashwan added.
The campaign has stirred the waters of Egyptian politics, stagnant
after 50 years of rule by a succession of strongmen from military
backgrounds.
Since the overthrow of the monarchy 53 years ago, no Egyptian president
has left office through the ballot box. Mubarak's immediate predecessor Anwar
Sadat was assassinated and Gamal Abdel Nasser died in office.
Mubarak has ruled Egypt longer than anyone since Muhammad Ali Pasha, an
Albanian adventurer who founded in the early 19th century the dynasty toppled
by the military in 1952.
While three weeks of rallies have sparked political debate not
witnessed in decades, many Egyptians still see little prospect the election
will solve key problems such as poverty, unemployment, corruption and abuses
of power.
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