Libya's Islamists Count on Independents to Get A Majority

As election results continue to come in, the National Forces Alliance still has a strong showing with the majority of the party list seats announced so far. But what about the seats for individual candidates that will make up the bulk of the National Congress? Now the Muslim Brotherhood's Justice and Construction Party claims that Islamists will take a majority of the individual candidate seats and thus a majority of overall seats. I'm going to wait for all the ballots to be counted before making any grand pronouncements. AFP has the story - Libya's Islamists Count on Independents to Get A Majority"We expect to have a very large presence in the congress," said Mohammed Sawan, head of the Justice and Construction Party, an Islamist party spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood."Preliminary results (which appear to give the liberal coalition a net advantage) reflect only 40 percent of seats. But early figures show that the coalition has no presence in the remaining 120 seats," he added."Jibril's party is one of the parties that we have the least in common with," he said when asked whether he would be willing to work with the liberal coalition in the next congress.