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Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya and El-Asalaa: El-Noor Party's only two allies in Islamist bloc Negotiations with other Islamist parties began too late for them to join bloc claims El-Noor spokesman
El-Noor Party spokesperson Nader Bakr has said Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya's political arm, the Building and Development Party (El-Benaa Wa El-Tanmia) and El-Asalaa Party are his side's only two allies in the Islamist bloc that will take part in next month's parliamentary elections. El-Fadila, El-Amal and El-Tawheed El-Arabi and El-Wasat did not join the electoral lists of El-Noor. “The rest of the parties didn't join us because the negotiations with them started too late. There was not enough time to work things out,” Bakr, who is also a member of El-Noor's supreme committee, told Ahram Online. The defection of several Islamic groups from the Democratic Alliance for Egypt led to the creation of the new Islamist coalition, which will vie with the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in parliamentary polls slated for next month. Following on the heels of the liberal Wafd Party, non-FJP Islamist parties abruptly pulled out of the Democratic Alliance to protest their paltry shares on the joint electoral lists. Defectors complained that the Brotherhood, the most influential Islamist group in the region, was hoping for a landslide electoral victory and the lion's share of the seats in Egypt's parliament.
