How Egypt voted and "not voted"

international | politics / elections | other press Saturday September 10, 2005 20:58 by ribbid

Another story of "the government won the elections". What was once a joke, is increasingly true, one doesn't need to count the ink thumbs, or even trust the polls, all you need to ask is - "who is the current government and do the west like them?"
Answer "yes" they won.
Answer "no" they lost.

some links for you to read if you're interested in Egyptian politics.

Just remember 23% turnout is not really a democratic participation. 77% of the Egyptians registered to vote did not.

The largest political organisation is banned becuase it is a "religious" party, "The Islamic brotherhood".

Mubarak's main rival allowed to stand, Ayman Nour of the liberal Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, won 7.6 percent of the vote and Wafd Party candidate Noman Gomaa was third with 2.9 percent. The percentages were based on valid votes counted.

Anyway, today demonstrators took to the streets to protest the elections as fraudulent.


compare & contrast links:-

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4BB84C5D-63A8-4B00-9CAC-09412FAF82E0.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4232074.stm

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/759/fr1.htm

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/623191.html

Egypt last popped unto your news for the bombing of Sharm el Sheikh, when I pointed out the main political opposition were denouncing these elections then "upcoming" as a farce. The first decision by the Egyptian government has been to send troops to the Gaza frontier. This was expected. Really no surprises. Tick tock.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71105