Anti-MB group dominates Engineers Syndicate elections | Mada Masr
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
By : Jano Charbel
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The Engineers Syndicate elections held over the weekend witnessed another resounding vote against the formerly presiding Muslim Brotherhood.
The Unified National List coalition, supported by the liberal-centrist Free Egyptians Party, garnered significant gains in the general syndicate and its 23 branch syndicates nationwide.
The list’s Tareq al-Nabrawy won the presidency of the general syndicate, with a reported 70 percent of the vote.
Nabrawy replaces the Brotherhood’s Magdy Khlousy as syndicate chief. His coalition has entirely sidelined the Islamist bloc in both the general syndicate and the provincial branch syndicates.
The Brotherhood, which had maintained leadership of the Engineers Syndicate for over 20 years, boycotted the election, as did its allies.
Voter turnout was reportedly low during the two days of polling, particularly in comparison to the hotly contested 2011 elections when the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups were running for seats. Some 250,000 engineers from over 400,000 eligible syndicate members voted, including a number of senior officials such as Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and the ministers of transport, communication and irrigation.