ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 26 (IslamOnline) - Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Zafarani, the secretary of the Physicians’ Syndicate in Alexandria and his wife Jehan Al-Halafawi, the candidate for the Muslim Brotherhood in the National Assembly, said that the American Consulate has asked to meet them and asked them questions regarding intelligence information concerning the elections.

“We were surprised to see a request from Dayan Kelly, the first secretary of the American Consulate, to meet us and during our meeting, there were many questions regarding the Popular Committee of Supporting Palestine which I head and also questions about the secret behind the Muslim Brotherhood’s nomination of a woman in the elections,” said Al-Zafarani.

Elections is a strictly internal Egyptian affair, he said he told them, and the United States has nothing to do with it.

Al-Halafawi, the candidate for the Al-Raml district in Alexandria, said that the U.S. interest in the Al-Raml elections is because she is linked to an Islamic group. “The west still looks at Arab societies as a society that refuses the participation of women into the political sphere,” she said.

Meanwhile, the Al-Raml District in Alexandira witnessed the arrest of five supporters for the Muslim Brotherhood: Ahmad Mukhaymar, a reporter in the Afaq Arabya newspaper; Dr. Mohammad Taher, Professor at the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Munofya; Hassan Abu Zayd, a businessman; Engineer Ayman Shams, a business man and Ihab Mohamad Hassan.

Al-Halafawi and another Islamic candidate for the district, Al-Muahamadi Al-Sayed, said that they feared the companies’ employees and the soldiers of the Central Security Forces from outside the district will be asked to vote using fraud cards and they warned of the usage of bullies during voting day on Thursday, June 27. The bullies, they said, would be used in front of the voting areas to harm the voters and to scare them off voting, especially in front of the female voting areas.