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CAIRO — Following a 12-year hiatus, labor union elections kicked off May 23 amid accusations that the Egyptian government is excluding independent labor organizations’ leaders from the electoral race in a bid to have the upper hand on labor unions, which caused a headache for the regime in the wake of the January 25 Revolution.
The last labor elections were held under former President Hosni Mubarak in 2006, before being suspended due to the political unrest that followed the revolutions on Jan. 25, 2011, and on June 30, 2013.
