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Why did the Muslim Brotherhood boycott Egypt’s 2010 parliamentary election runoff?
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Muslim Brotherhood
Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, Egypt, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 as an attempt to modernize Islamic society.
The Muslim Brotherhood boycotted the 2010 parliamentary election runoff because the administration of President Hosni Mubarak had systematically restricted the organization throughout the electoral process by arresting its members and barring voters in its strongholds.1
Following the first round of voting, the ruling National Democratic Party secured 209 out of 211 seats. This result effectively eliminated the Muslim Brotherhood from the parliament, prompting the organization to boycott the second round of the election in protest of the manipulated process.1