Muslim Brotherhood wins 28 seats in Egypt's Parliament
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Source: Reuters                       November 27 2005
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood has further built its strength in Egypt's parliament, winning 28 seats this weekend in legislative elections despite restrictions on voting, the Islamist group said on Sunday.

Brotherhood deputy leader Mohamed Habib told Reuters the wins showed the strength of his group, which is only contesting one third of parliament's 444 elected seats but poses the strongest challenge to the ruling party.

Police had restricted voting and detained more than 800 of the Brotherhood's activists on Saturday, which was the fourth of six days of voting.

The group, which is officially outlawed, has now won 75 seats in the chamber with slightly less than a third of the places still to be contested.

The Brotherhood had 15 seats in the outgoing chamber. Habib said the group would field 49 candidates in the third and final round of voting which begins on December 1.