The World - News from Feb. 5, 1987
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered a national referendum Feb. 12 on whether to dissolve the three-year-old People’s Assembly (Parliament). The move was supported by the five opposition parties, which favor a return to the one-man, one-vote system practiced in Egypt from 1923 to 1984. Under a complex system of proportional representation that favors the majority party, the last parliamentary elections in 1984 gave the ruling National Democratic Party 391 of the 448 elected seats.
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