Hosni Mubarak re-elected NDP chairman

Published September 16, 2002

CAIRO, Sept 15: President Hosni Mubarak was re-elected chairman of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) on Sunday at the party’s first convention in a decade, state television reported.

Mubarak, president of Egypt since 1981 and the sole candidate for the NDP top post, was approved by more than 6,000 delegates present, the television said. The length of his new term was not specified.

In the NDP’s first convention since 1992, party sources say, more than 6,000 party officials and other delegates will elect its general secretariat for the first time in the NDP’s 24-year history.—AFP

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