'We've said it a thousand times. And it seems we have to say it one more time. We are totally independent of each other. The government is one thing; the National Democratic Party is something else altogether.' Mohieddin El-Labbad in the Egyptian weekly magazine Al-Musawwar;

Saad Al-Hajou, in Lebanon's daily As-Safir, on the Egyptian parliamentary elections

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