Egyptians return to the polls to cast their ballots in run-off parliamentary elections. Polls opened Monday morning in nine provinces, where voters will choose between 52 individual candidates who will occupy a third of the 498 seats in the lower house once two more rounds of the complicated voting process end in January. The run-offs will pit 24 members of the ultra-conservative Islamist al-Nour Party against the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood. In Cairo's working-class neighbourhood of Shubra, the lines began early in the morning. One voter is optimistic about the vote. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) VOTER, SAMIR ABDEL SAYYED, SAYING: "It's very good, the process is good and in the interests of the country and hopefully we will see a good result." Polling stations will close at 7pm local time. Travis Brecher, Reuters
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