"I think there are some serious questions about the extent to which some of those parties would defend those rights, if they were in power,'' especially the rights of women and religious freedom, Elizabeth Cheney, US deputy assistant secretary of state for the Near East, said in an interview earlier this fall.
"A willingness to participate in the democratic system isn't proof of that somebody is a democrat. You have to be willing to protect that system and defend the rights of others," she said.
The Brotherhood won 34 seats in the first round, up from only 15 in the outgoing parliament. The ruling NDP seized 112, after joining candidates who ran as independents, in the 454 member legislature.
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