Mohamed Habib, Former Deputy General Guide of Muslim Brotherhood, revealed that the MB had negotiated with the former regime, starting from 2005, to divide the parliamentary seats among MB's nominees in the elections. He explained that the Brotherhood succeeded in seizing 161 seats, considering the support of all the backup nominees, in coordination with the other powers and parties such as National Progressive Unionist Party and Al-Wafad Party. Habib added that the elections' results surprised the former regime by winning 34 nominees in the first round and 42 ones in the second round, while the former regime expected the MB could only gain a maximum of 40 seats. The negotiations between the Muslim Brotherhood and the former regime were under the pressure of the US administration; which by study and analyses, after the explosions of September 2011, concluded that the problem is not within its relations with the world but it lies in the suppression that the Arab countries practice on the groups and factions.
