It was an impressive showing for the Islamists Friday, but one of their rivals in the square, Leila Hashem, said she is not concerned.
“It doesn’t worry me at all because even if you see them as many people today, they are not the majority," said Hashem. "They will never be the majority. Most of the people don’t’ want this to be Egypt one day. When it is election time, I don’t think these people will win.”
Estimates of Islamist support in the coming election vary from 10 to 35 percent, but the leading Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, says it hopes to attract coalition partners and achieve a majority in the Egyptian parliament. Top leaders of secular parties say they will try to form an alliance to challenge the Islamists.
There is no date set yet for the parliamentary vote, but the military council has promised it will happen this year. The Islamists want the election as soon as possible, when they believe their support will be greatest compared to the new and relatively disorganized secular political groups.
But for one day Friday, officially at least, the various movements put their differences aside. A council of more than two dozen Islamist and secular groups agreed to focus on unity. Among the few demands they agree on are an end to military trials of civilians and swift prosecutions of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and other former officials.
There was a report that some of the secular groups withdrew from the protest after it started Friday, accusing the Islamists of trying to dominate it. But a spokesman for one of the main secular groups, the April 6th movement, denied the report.
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