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(Dailymail.co.uk) Muslim hardliners are set to push for strict religious laws in Egypt after their strong showing in the country's elections.
A spokesman for an ultra-conservative Islamist party said that he was hoping to impose Sharia law on Egypt.
Final results in the first parliamentary election since the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak will be announced later today.
slamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafists appear to have taken a majority of seats in the first round of the vote.
If this trend is confirmed, it would give the religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key ally of the West.
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Spokesman Yousseri Hamad says the Salafi Nour party expects to get 30 per cent of the vote.
The showing would put them in a strong position to influence policy, although it's unclear how much power the new parliament will have with the ruling generals still in power.
Protests are still raging in the iconic Tahrir Square in an attempt to force the military to get out of politics.
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