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Egypt National Conscience Front Founding Statement: We Will Defend Freedoms - Ikhwanweb - 0 views

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Egypt MB ikhwan politics

shared by Ed Webb on 10 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 10 Feb 13
     
    Appears to be an attempt to delegitimize Morsi's opposition.
Ed Webb

BBC News - Muslim Brotherhood's Mursi declared Egypt president - 0 views

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Egypt MB ikhwan presidentialelections

shared by Ed Webb on 24 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Supporters of Mr Shafiq, who had been holding a rally in the capital's northern suburb of Nasser City, were stunned by the result. There was screaming and crying and people were seen holding their heads in despair.
  • Security had been tight for the announcement, with tanks and troops deployed around the election commission's headquarters
  • Hours after the result, Mr Mursi resigned from his positions within the Muslim Brotherhood including his role as chairman of its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) as he had pledged to do in the event of his victory
Ed Webb

Good News Before More Battles in Egypt - carnegieendowment.org - Readability - 0 views

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Egypt analysis politics SCAF MB ikhwan

shared by Ed Webb on 26 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Morsi’s victory does not mean that democracy has triumphed in Egypt
  • The Muslim Brotherhood has already denounced the constitutional declaration, but the SCAF is unlikely to give in on that point after conceding Morsi’s triumph.
  • the secular parties that claimed that their past performance in the elections was poor because they did not have adequate time to organize do not appear to be making the massive effort to build their parties that they need in order to be successful the next time around
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  • The old regime still controls the institutions
  • two highly political legal suits currently pending in front of the administrative court—one seeking to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and one seeking to ban its Freedom and Justice Party. Both cases will be adjudicated in September
  • Morsi is the first president that came to power on the basis of a popular vote rather than by rising through the ranks of the military. But it is only one step in a process of transformation that will take time, be punctuated by many acrimonious battles, and in the end may not lead to democracy
Ed Webb

Egypt Elections: Setback for the Transition - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 0 views

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Egypt elections opinion analysis SCAF ikhwan MB

shared by Ed Webb on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • This was the worst possible outcome of the elections: it is the prelude to the direct confrontation between the old regime and the Muslim Brotherhood that Mubarak warned about and used to justify—and win tacit international acceptance for—his authoritarian policies.
  • there is no constitution yet and nobody knows how much power the new president will have or how responsibilities will be shared between him and the parliament. The SCAF, expected to step down at the end of June after the president is elected, is now trying to issue a new, last-minute constitutional declaration to define the powers of the president, preempting the decision of the constituent assembly and the prerogatives of the elected parliament to choose who will write the constitution
  • in the middle will stand over 50 percent of Egyptians who did not vote for either Morsi or Shafiq, but for three candidates that represent, in their own very different fashion, an alternative
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  • there are no established voting patterns to base predictions
  • On one side of the battle will be the military, state institutions including the courts that are still controlled by Mubarak-era personnel, the business community, other people who thrived under the old regime, and ordinary Egyptians who want order restored. On the other side will be the Muslim Brothers, most Islamists, and the Egyptians who rose up in January 2011 and do not want to see the regime they thought they had defeated make a comeback.
  • The Supreme Constitutional Court (whose president, not incidentally, is also the head of the presidential election commission) will soon rule whether the election law used in the parliamentary election was constitutional. If it decides it was not, it is possible the court will disband the parliament, depriving the Muslim Brotherhood of the only center of power it, rather than the old regime, controls
  • Should Ahmed Shafiq win the presidential vote and the court finds the parliament was unconstitutionally elected, Islamists will have lost the battle with the old regime
  • In the short run, these are the battles that will determine the winners, and the old regime appears to be better armed, controlling the institutions and the security forces. In the long run, the outcome is much less predictable because the majority of Egyptians have rejected both the Islamist candidate and the one from the old regime
Ed Webb

BBC News - Egyptian President Mursi reverses parliament dissolution - 0 views

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Egypt parliament constitution SCAF military MB ikhwan

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    Confrontation, or part of a deal?
Ed Webb

Egypt's Military Seeks Advice on Handing Power to Civilians - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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USA Egypt military SCAF US MB ikhwan

shared by Ed Webb on 30 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • On Sunday, the military-led government said that the lobbyists did not quit; they were terminated as a cost-cutting measure
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      Ed Webb on 30 Jan 12
       
      You can't quit - you're fired!
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