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CAIRO — Egypt’s ruling party won a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections, according to results released Monday, after a final round of voting that was boycotted by the two main opposition groups in protest of what they said was massive vote-rigging.
Hours before the results were even announced, a coalition of Egyptian rights groups alleging fraud demanded that President Hosni Mubarak annul the elections using his constitutional powers to dissolve the newly elected parliament.
The outcome leaves Mubarak’s National Democratic Party in firm control of the new parliament and its main rivals in the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood completely shut out as the country preps for a presidential vote next year.
