Post-revolution polls in Egypt

Morsy, Morsi, Mursi... will the press please figure out a single spelling for the name? Let's not go through the Khadaffy nonsense again.
 
WildCat said:
Morsy, Morsi, Mursi... will the press please figure out a single spelling for the name? Let's not go through the Khadaffy nonsense again.
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T.E. Lawrence, in his classic memoirs "Seven PIllars Of Wisdom" delibertly used different systems of translations from Arabic to English "just to show what rot they are all".

Looks as if Morsi wants a Promotion from President to Pharoah. Guess his idea of legislation is "So Let It Be Written, So Let It Be Done'".
Guy just took a lot of the prestige he had gained internationally with his brokering of a truce between Hamas and Israel, and just flushed it down the toilet with this move.
 
The AP reports that neither side is really backing down, though it appears that Morsi is starting to realize just what it is that he's done: at least one Morsi aide has resigned over this, the street protests are still going strong, and a teenager was killed when anti-Morsi protestors attempted to storm yet another Brotherhood office (this one in the city of Damanhoor), and Egypt's stock market is tanking. The latter will probably be the real deciding factor in all this, since concerns over the economy are the number one issue for most Egyptians.

I guess we'll see what happens at that giant Tahrir protest and counter-protest scheduled for Tuesday...
 
I've read that MB is organizing large pro-Morsi rallies all over the country. I wonder how much of this sentiment actually exists in the population.
 
Playing devil's advocate here, but:

Is it really a good idea to have Egypt limping along with justice system saturated with Mubarak/military loyalists?

I know it's naive to assume that far-reaching "temporary" powers are given back as promised (that crap has been going wrong since Julius Ceasar), but I can see the need to clean the system autocratic lackeys.

No matter what kind of bastard Mursi is, if he pushes the military out of the political process, he's done some good.
 
Eddie Dane said:
No matter what kind of bastard Mursi is, if he pushes the military out of the political process, he's done some good.
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Not while he's simultaneously pushing religion into it. One step forward, 3 steps back.
 
Childlike Empress said:
So his latest move is to present a new constitution (to develop which he had just granted two more months) and say "here, just accept it and I will take back my new self-given powers as promised." :boggled:

New Egypt draft constitution published amid growing unrest
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That's part of the same power play. The previous panel was disbanded by the courts after everyone but the Islamists and Salafists walked out in protest of their domination of the panel. This panel was facing the same issues, with a similar walkout, and as the al-Akhbar article notes, was headed for another judicial review. Morsi's decree said that the courts no longer had any say over the panel, and the Islamists and Salafists who stayed after the walkout rushed a draft through to completion (though there will have to be a popular vote on it before it's officially adopted).

As a related, interesting aside, Time Magazine just published an interview they did with Morsi. He apparently prefers the original Planet of the Apes to the remake, which he says was "not so good".
 
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This Time article is headlined "Why the Military Is Unlikely to Intervene in Egypt’s Messy Power Struggle", but most of it is a rather close examination of the various factions in this fight, what all of them might really be after, and what it all means for Egypt's political future.
 
ANTPogo said:
This Time article is headlined "Why the Military Is Unlikely to Intervene in Egypt’s Messy Power Struggle", but most of it is a rather close examination of the various factions in this fight, what all of them might really be after, and what it all means for Egypt's political future.
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Thanks, I'll read that.

It did occur to me that the police put in the same kind of effort protecting the palace that they usually reserve for the Israeli embassy.
 
So, yesterday Morsi finally issued a statement about all the anger, unrest, and protests against his power grab.

Commenting on Wednesday’s clashes in front of the Presidential Palace, which left at least five dead and about 700 injured, Morsy said investigations have revealed that many of those present in skirmishes were armed and paid to ignite violence. “I will not allow the deposed, corrupt regime to return under any circumstances,” he said.

The president emphasised the right of peaceful protest but asked, “does peaceful protest mean attacking public and private buildings? Hindering traffic or disrupting work?”

He confirmed that the details of those arrested will be released later and would prove to be related to the former regime. “Investigations have shown that 80 detainees have confessed to having relations with political powers and are financed to incite hatred and violence,” he said.
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And those "investigations" which resulted in the "confessions" that he talked about? Obtained by Brotherhood "counter-protesters" via kidnapping and torture with the collusion of the police.
 
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