The World - News from April 8, 1987

President Hosni Mubarak’s centrist party was winning an overwhelming majority in parliamentary elections in Egypt, but a Muslim alliance was emerging as a major new opposition force. Assistant Interior Minister Ahmed Rasikh, who oversees polling, told the state-owned Middle East News Agency that Mubarak’s party was winning up to 80% of the vote. An opposition alignment including the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood was running second. The government said balloting took place in an atmosphere of “freedom and security,” but a second day of rioting was reported over alleged vote fraud in the city of Kafr el-Dawar.