From the coverage I get here it sounds like the only serious contenders are those backed by the military and those backed by the Muslim Brotherhood. Both groups are already preparing to accuse the other of fraud if they win.
Apparently this isn't going to be settled until mid-June unless one candidate completely destroys the others at the polls today and tomorrow. The president won't have any power for a long time because parliament can't come to an agreement on what authority the president should have.
Thoughts? Prophecies of doom?
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Last edited by Symmetric Chaos on May 23rd, 2012 at 07:18 PM
We should intervene and show them how real democracy works.
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I like Khaled Ali in the elections and I'm inbetween with Sabahi. Fotouh will turn Egypt into even bigger disaster than it already is...probably.
Mursi is a psychopath and hope he gets no votes.
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The Egyptian Election is a Cynic's dream come true.
"What if Shafik wins?"
"Well then it's Mubarak v2.0--that's if the military even cedes any power at all, if not then you have a junta"
"What if Morsi wins?"
"Well then you have a theocracy--that's if the military even cedes any power at all, if not then you have a nominal theocracy that's really a secular junta"
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come of what exactly and What Problem do you have with Shafiq Because you said "which is just a little more extreme than mine" so you believe that he isn't the one may I know why??
I don't have a problem with him, except for the fact that he was close enough to Mubarak to be appointed Prime Minister during a crisis.
As for my position being close to the cynic's, that's more a matter of my concern that the Military Council will retain ultimate authority after the election. And these generals came to their positions under Mubarak. Tantawi--I believe--was one of Mubarak's ministers. The more removed from the old guard a potential president is the more resistance there will be to a backslide to the old order.
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Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
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yepp I know but tantawi is a good guy
secondly what you don't know mubarak wasn't rolling Egypt his wife and elder son was
and Shafiq was close to him as a human not as a president so He has nothing against him
Mubarak himself isn't a bad but he cheated by his wife and his son
and he was the Prime Minister at the time people wanted and they welcomed that in the first place but then refused it
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