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Riceday Posts: 502 Incept: 2009-10-30	http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/.... Quote: A constitutional court ruling on Thursday means that the whole of the lower house of Egypt's parliament will be dissolved and a new election will have to be held 2012-06-14 10:32:21 Permalink
Drench Posts: 28631 Incept: 2009-11-10	Quote: Judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament Thursday and ruled that Mubarak's former prime minister can stand in the presidential runoff this weekend - setting the stage for the military and remnants of the old regime to stay in power. The rulings effectively erase the tenuous progress from the past year's troubled transition, leaving Egypt with no parliament and concentrating rule even more firmly in the hands of the military generals who took power after Mubarak's ouster. The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which stands to lose the most from the rulings, called the moves a coup and vowed to rally the street against the ruling military and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, the presidential candidate seen by critics as a favorite of the generals and a symbol of Mubarak's autocratic rule. As night fell, a crowd of protesters was rapidly growing in Cairo's Tahrir Square, birthplace of the uprising that toppled Mubarak last year. http://www.ksla.com/story/18785150/troop.... 2012-06-14 14:22:50 Permalink
Drench Posts: 28631 Incept: 2009-11-10	@TheBigPharaoh: Voting has been extended to 10 pm! That's how low the turnout is. #EgyElections http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-e.... 2012-06-17 11:48:42 Permalink
Vitchilo Posts: 4626 Incept: 2011-04-27	Quote: Judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak There's your problem right there. Off with their heads. ---------- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken Last modified: 2012-06-17 13:14:11 by vitchilo 2012-06-17 13:13:04 Permalink
Drench Posts: 28631 Incept: 2009-11-10	Muslim Brotherhood claims victory in Egyptian presidential vote (but it's not official yet) http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/world/meas.... 2012-06-17 23:05:34 Permalink
Bobby Posts: 2995 Incept: 2008-01-19 vermont	I am not sure, but I think it was official a few weeks before the 1st vote. The protests, the revolts, the fighting: where just part of the Military approved change of gov. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun.... There where about 200 women who where attacked by hundreds of MB members. (signs and everything) Many of these women where raped, in public, in front of security forces. Not a word from western fems. And damn little from the folks who yacked about a new 'age' in Egypt. 100's of pro-freedom members have killed be Egyptian forces, since the MB took over. bob ---------- "It was the money.You Americans, you believe money is power.""Belief, is power." 2012-06-18 06:16:34 Permalink
Rarnopp Posts: 892 Incept: 2008-02-26 London, United Kingdom	"since the MB took over" They haven't taken over - they just won an election, which in Egypt is not at all the same thing. The harassment of democracy protesters was ultimately the doing of the military junta, which controls the security forces. ---------- "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?" - Bishop Joseph Butler 2012-06-18 06:54:55 Permalink
Drench Posts: 28631 Incept: 2009-11-10	Quote: "The army will hand over power to the elected president in a big ceremony end-month that the entire world will witness," the official news agency MENA quoted Major-General Mohamed El Assar, a member of the ruling army council, as saying. "Egypt is a modern democratic country that upholds all democratic values," the statement went on. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-5.... 2012-06-18 09:14:51 Permalink
Rarnopp Posts: 892 Incept: 2008-02-26 London, United Kingdom	Clearly they have a sense of humour. ---------- "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?" - Bishop Joseph Butler 2012-06-18 11:02:49 Permalink
Bobby Posts: 2995 Incept: 2008-01-19 vermont	'They haven't taken over - they just won an election, which in Egypt is not at all the same thing.' It was the MB ,in the military, who won the power struggle for the military. Than the mil wanted the old Egyptian power block, out. The elections where a very small fig leaf. The folks running the mil are the folks that run the gov. This was a MB coup. They won, some time ago. There would have been No Vote, if the old power block still ran the mil. bob ---------- "It was the money.You Americans, you believe money is power.""Belief, is power." Last modified: 2012-06-18 19:55:07 by bobby Reason: ,, 2012-06-18 19:50:23 Permalink
Grody Posts: 3731 Incept: 2008-02-19	Quote: There would have been No Vote, if the old power block still ran the mil. That is not entirely true. There would have been a "vote". Mubarek was "elected" 3 times but nobody was allowed to run against him! Quote: President Mubarak was re-elected by majority votes in a referendum for successive terms on four occasions: in 1987, 1993, and 1999. The referendum in itself and its results are of questionable validity. No one could run against the President due to a restriction in the Egyptian constitution That's how the Communists used to handle their "elections". They'd control all the candidates so it didn't make any difference who got "elected". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubar.... ---------- Pain is weakness leaving the body. Bulls need more pain NOW. Last modified: 2012-06-18 22:16:18 by grody 2012-06-18 22:14:45 Permalink
Eni_orisa Posts: 736 Incept: 2011-06-28 Banned	It's a good thing that writing a constitution in not unconstitutional... I get my permission from the place the Founding Fathers got theirs. 2012-06-19 02:35:32 Permalink
Bobby Posts: 2995 Incept: 2008-01-19 vermont	Your right Groody. A real vote was not going to happen. They did however have an 'election', which I am sure Jimmy Carter gave his stamp of approval. ---------- "It was the money.You Americans, you believe money is power.""Belief, is power." 2012-06-19 06:28:37 Permalink