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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Egypt vote leaves near single-party parliament AFP - Sunday, December 5 Send IM Story Print Egypt vote leaves near single-party parliament CAIRO (AFP) - – President Hosni Mubarak's party was poised to win almost every seat in a parliamentary election runoff on Sunday boycotted by Egypt's main opposition parties over fraud and intimidation allegations. The National Democratic Party (NDP), which has already dominated parliament for three decades, won 209 out of 221 seats in the first round on November 28, after which the two major opposition blocs withdrew from the race. The stage was set for a repeat performance, with 383 NDP candidates left to compete mostly against rivals within the same party for the remaining elected seats of parliament. The Muslim Brotherhood, the only serious opposition force, did not win a single seat in the first round. The group controlled a fifth of the outgoing parliament, using independents to circumvent a ban on religious parties. The Brotherhood said this week that its remaining 27 candidates would not participate in the second round, the first such decision by the Islamist group since the 1990s, although it complains of fraud after every election. The liberal Wafd party, which usually has working ties with the government, won two seats. The fractured party announced in a rare display of resolve that it would also pull its candidates out of the runoff. Three other parties which each won a seat last week decided to keep their candidates in the race. Analysts said the NDP appeared to have overplayed its hand by virtually wiping out its opposition, strengthening the impression of Egypt as a one-party state. Egypt's veteran president appoints 10 lawmakers in addition to the 508 elected members of parliament, with most of them expected also to go to the ruling party. "The pullout of the opposition adds to the legitimacy crisis. It means the opposition are no longer buying into the system. The damage done to the NDP is huge," said Amr Hamzawi of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The ruling party insists the election has been free, and argues that support for the Islamists in particular was exaggerated, according to NDP surveys before polling. But rights groups say they gathered evidence of fraud and vote-buying in the first round, after a campaign which already made it very difficult for the NDP's opponents to win seats. Police arrested more than 1,000 Brotherhood supporters in the runup to the vote, prompting Washington, which usually avoids mention of the Islamists in its rare criticism of Cairo, a key ally, to weigh in with a protest. Brotherhood candidates faced restrictions while campaigning, and at least 11 of the group's supporters have been sentenced to two-year jail terms for distributing the group's campaign literature. The vote is seen as a possible indication of Egypt's far more important presidential poll due in late 2011. Mubarak, 82, has yet to announce whether he will run and is widely believed to be grooming his son Gamal for succession. The near absence of opposition parties in parliament means whoever stands for the NDP in the presidential election will have almost no competition, a scenario which could raise questions over the president's legitimacy. 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