A line of more than 1,200 women lined up in Ma’adi, a suburb of Cairo, to vote on Monday. (Photo: Matthew Bell)
November 29: A second day of voting is taking place in Egypt in the first elections since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, with indications of a high turnout in Cairo and other big cities.
Many protesters occupying Cairo’s Tahrir Square have boycotted the vote. The elections for a new parliament have been mainly peaceful so far.
General Ismail Atman, a member of the ruling council of army generals, told al-Jazeera TV that he expected turnout in this phase of voting to exceed 70%.
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Journalists tweeting from Egypt:
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NBC’s Richard Engel
CBC’s Derek Stoffel
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