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To Participate or Boycott? Challenges of the 2013 Election and the Iranian Opposition
![[Iranian presidential election 2009 protests, Oslo, Norway. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Iranian_presidential_election_2009_protests,_Oslo_-_2009-06-22_at_15-03-57_-_2009-06-22_at_15-03-57.jpg "[Iranian presidential election 2009 protests, Oslo, Norway. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
The upcoming 2013 presidential election in Iran seems to be activating and deepening the fissures within the Iranian opposition. While parts of the opposition have started deliberating and discussing about participation in the election, other sections oppose participating on principle. A prominent reformist strategist, for example, suggested that election is “an opportunity for organizing and action.” Meanwhile, another famous activist journalist wrote that the only possible election in 2013 is one with the participation of regime “insiders” and no chance for pro-democracy forces to participate. These debates about the opportunities and constraints of the 2013 election ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers: The Elections of the Revolution - From the Street to the Ballot Box (Cairo, 15 July Deadline)
![[Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales logo. Image from ema.revues.org]](/content_images/3/sm_newcedejlogo.png "[Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales logo. Image from ema.revues.org]")
Egypt Arab World Abstract due 15 July Cairo, Egypt Published by Centre d'Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales Since the January 25 Revolution, Egyptians have been offered several opportunities to make their voices heard through the ballot box. The elections held in 2011 and 2012 have been opportunities for the different political currents not only to come into office or to influence politics, but also to test their worth. Due to the post-revolutionary context, this issue of Egypt Arab World will be in continuity with previous studies of Egyptian elections, and reflect a rupture in the study of the subject. While previous works provided ...
Keep Reading »Morsi, SCAF, and the Revolutionary Left
![[Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Image from Wikipedia.]](/content_images/3/sm_792px-Mohammed_Morsi.jpg "[Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Image from Wikipedia.]")
As soon as the news broke last Sunday that Mohamed Morsi was officially declared Egypt’s first elected civilian president, I could hear loud happy chants and cheers in my street. The janitors in my neighborhood gathered around the corner in their galabiyas, jumping up and down, in the same fashion I usually see them when the Egyptian national football team scores a goal in some match. Their children, in bare feet, were running up and down the street, chasing posh cars that passed by, chanting “Morsi! Morsi!”. While, fellow citizens in “working class districts in Cairo celebrate[d]... with fireworks, marches, dancing and sweets amid hopes of a brighter future,” reported ...
Keep Reading »Egyptian Military Source: 'SCAF Won't Let Brotherhood Seize Power'
![[Both campaigns for Mursi and Shafiq claim victory in the presidential elections. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rasad.]](/content_images/3/sm_7392547206_7a193d5316.jpg "[Both campaigns for Mursi and Shafiq claim victory in the presidential elections. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rasad.]")
A military source who spoke to Ahram Online on condition of anonymity spelt out the ruling military council's position on Egypt's current uncertain political situation, in which the Muslim Brotherhood appears to stand on the verge of winning the presidency. "The military council is determined not to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to seize power," said the source. "It will not relinquish the reins of power until a new constitution is issued and the arena is set for a balanced political process." "There are political forces that want to discredit the political process by making people believe that matters are being decided by political ...
Keep Reading »Islamists Threaten SCAF with New Revolution
![[A Muslim Brotherhood supporter of Mohamed Morsi after the presidential elections. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rashad.]](/content_images/3/sm_7392554084_de46870f2d.jpg "[A Muslim Brotherhood supporter of Mohamed Morsi after the presidential elections. Image originally posted to Flickr by Johnathan Rashad.]")
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis Nour Party have called on the Egyptian people to go to Tahrir Square on Friday and take part in the "Return of Legitimacy" demonstration in protest against the supplement to the Constitutional Declaration issued by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces earlier this week. They are threatening the SCAF with another revolution, say party representatives. Freedom and Justice Party MP Essam al-Erian told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the party’s executive office is meeting on Wednesday to discuss the Constituent Assembly, adding that Mamdouh al-Waly, chairman of the Journalists Syndicate, had been selected as its ...
Keep Reading »Al-Masry Al-Youm's Count: Morsy Wins Presidency with 51.13 Percent of Poll
![[Supporters of Mohamed Morsi celebrate his victory in Tahrir Square. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]](/content_images/3/sm_7395109662_d70cda80fb.jpg "[Supporters of Mohamed Morsi celebrate his victory in Tahrir Square. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]")
According to Al-Masry Al-Youm's count, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy garnered 51.13 percent of the vote, securing the post of the president, after a fierce runoff that pushed former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq out of the race with a slim difference. Morsy gathered 12,322,549 votes, while Shafiq got 12,201,549, or 48.87 percent of the vote. Morsy consolidated gains in most Upper Egyptian cities and villages, where he led in the first round of the presidential race. Shafiq came in first in most of the Delta cities, where he also established himself in the first round of the polls. Morsy secured the first position in eighteen governorates out of twenty-seven, ...
Keep Reading »Egypt's New President and the Military: Who's in Command?
An emergency meeting of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is expected very soon to issue an appendix to last year’s Constitutional Declaration with the objective of establishing political arrangements for the coming period. Informed sources say that SCAF leaders have held a series of intensive meetings with groups of constitutional law professors in recent days to tackle two urgent issues: detailing the powers and duties of the new president; and forming a new Constituent Assembly tasked with writing the country’s new constitution. Concerning the first issue, legal experts agree that the existing Constitutional Declaration, issued 30 March 2011, ...
Keep Reading »ماذا بعد انتخابات الرئاسة؟
بعد أيام قليلة يعتلي الرئيس الجديد كرسي الحكم، والرئيس الجديد سيأتي محاصَراً بجماهير قاطع الجزء الأكبر من كتلتها الانتخابية التصويت في المرحلة الأولى من الانتخابات، وصُدم الجزء الآخر الذي شارك فيها من النتيجة التي وضعته أمام خيارين لا مفر منهما في المرحلة الثانية، الخيار الأول «شفيق»، رجل الدولة الذي يمثل نظام مبارك والذي حكمت المحكمة الدستورية لصالحه بعدم دستورية قانون العزل السياسي ليستمر في المنافسة، والخيار الثاني، محمد مرسي، الذي يمثل جماعة الإخوان المسلمين، حائزة الأغلبية في البرلمان الذي تم حله بموجب حكم صادر من ذات المحكمة وفي ذات اليوم، والذي يستدعي ذكره هو وجماعته المفاوضات التي خاضتها الجماعة مع العسكر وأدت إلى تفكيك الزخم الثوري. الرئيس الجديد والمجلس ...
Keep Reading »Many Egyptians Skip the Polls, Out of Hopelessness or Protest
![[An Egyptian polling station for the past presidential elections. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]](/content_images/3/sm_7257515168_388a3522a9.jpg "[An Egyptian polling station for the past presidential elections. Image originally posted to Flickr by Zeinab Mohamed.]")
Saeed sits in front of his butcher shop in the Cairo district of Manial, a few feet away from a polling station where only a few citizens cast their vote in the runoff of the first post-Mubarak presidential election. Saeed says he has lost faith in both the political elite and the state. He won’t be voting. “Corruption is back. Neither of the candidates deserves my vote. We should save our effort for a second revolution,” he says, before taking a drag of his cigarette. Enthusiasm for the electoral process has dwindled throughout the last year and a half of a confusing transitional period, throughout which many Egyptians have grown disenchanted with the ...
Keep Reading »Mursi, Shafiq or Boycott: A Voters Guide to Egypt's Presidential Runoff
Egyptians return to the polls on Saturday for the runoff round of voting in the country's first post-revolution presidential election. Ahram Online has collated all the arguments for and against both candidates – the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi and Mubarak's last premier Ahmed Shafiq – as well as the arguments for and against boycotting the election. Mohamed Mursi Engineering professor, former MP until 2005 and head of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc at the time, member of the Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau and current head of its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), and “backup” candidate to now-disqualified runner Khairat El-Shater. He came in first ...
Keep Reading »SCAF Assumes Parliament Powers, Right to Elect Constituent Assembly: Legal Experts
![[Egyptians gather to start their march to the parliament. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Al Hussainy Mohamed.]](/content_images/3/sm_7003775342_db2a5f8d71.jpg "[Egyptians gather to start their march to the parliament. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Al Hussainy Mohamed.]")
Maher Samy of the High Constitutional Court (HCC) announced Thursday that both the lower and upper houses of Egypt's parliament are null and void, following the court ruling that the election of one third of the individual parliamentary candidacy seats and the Political Disenfranchisement Law were both unconstitutional. Thursday's verdict means that presidential contender, and Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, who would have been banned from running should the Disenfranchisement Law have been implemented, will still face Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi in next week's presidential run-offs. The ruling also saw one third of Parliament voided as the ...
Keep Reading »On Mubarak's Trial, Presidential Elections, and the Return to Tahrir: An Interview with Sharif Abdel Kouddous
In the following interview Egyptian journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous discusses developments in Egypt in the wake of last Saturday's verdict in the Mubarak trial. The interview begins with an overview of the verdict, the legal process that led up to it, and the erruption of protests in its aftermath. It then tackles the broader context within which the trial and verdict unfolded: the struggle to define the scope of revolution in Egypt. Sharif discusses the (re)emergence of Ahmad Shafiq (Mubarak's last prime minister and retiured air force general) in the context of the presidential elections and what this represents about the these elections as opposed to the ...
Keep Reading »Beyond Libya's Election
On July 7, 2012, 1.7 million citizens participated in Libya’s first democratic election with multiple parties in nearly half a century, marking a historic achievement. Approximately 60 percent of Libya’s registered voters cast their votes to elect a 200-member national assembly that will replace the unelected interim government, the National Transition Council (NTC). 0 0 1 2954 16841 ASI 140 39 19756 14.0 ...
Keep Reading »Chaos in Kuwait: Politics as Usual?
On 18 June, the Emir of Kuwait, Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, suspended parliament for a month to head off an escalating row between the cabinet and parliament, the latter of which was about to publicly grill the interior minister over the country’s citizenship laws. Two days later, the constitutional court stepped in with its own ruling that declared the sitting (but newly suspended) parliament to be illegal and called for the reinstatement of the previous parliament. The court’s rationale was that an ...
Keep Reading »The President, SCAF, and the Future of Egypt: Interview with Sarah Sirgany
The following Skype interview was conducted on 29 June 2012 with Sarah Sirgany, an Egyptian journalist and editor at Egypt Monocle. In the first video, Sirgany discusses the presidential election outome while situating it within allegations of deal-making between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Surpeme Council for the Armed Forced (SCAF). She also identifies the key challenges facing the new president. In the secon video, Sirgany identifies the challenges facing revolutionaries in the wake of the ...
Keep Reading »Mursi, Shafiq Campaigns Both Claim Victory in Egypt Presidency Race
Both presidential campaigns – those of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi and last Mubarak-era PM Ahmed Shafiq – continue to claim victory. Final results of Egypt's contentious presidential election will likely be announced on Saturday or Sunday, according to a Wednesday statement by the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission. The announcement had originally been scheduled for Thursday. According to a Shafiq campaign source, their candidate is confident that he will be named ...
Keep Reading »Latest Egyptian Presidential Vote Count [Updated]
Below is the latest vote count in the 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections. These numbers will be updated as more information becomes available.
Keep Reading »Shafiq's Campaign Claims Candidate is Winning Egypt President Runoff with Fifty-Two Percent
In an electric atmosphere, members of Ahmed Shafiq’s campaign have said that their candidate is leading the race, frustrated with what they referred to as “facade” results of Mursi’s winning. “We’ve spotted massive violations from Mursi’s campaign, and according to our counting, our candidate is leading with fifty-one to fifty-two percent,” said Ahmed Sarhan, spokesman of Ahmed Shafiq’s campaign. Sarhan further said that Mursi’s campaign should drop all their allegations of vote-rigging against Shafiq, ...
Keep Reading »Update: SCAF Issues Complementary Constitutional Declaration
On Sunday night an official told state-run MENA news agency that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued a complementary constitutional declaration and will give details about the content of the document on Monday morning at 9:30 am. The SCAF held its third emergency meeting in three days to discuss legal procedures after the election of a president. After the meeting, SCAF head Hussein Tantawi led an Egyptian delegation that included the foreign minister and members of the military council ...
Keep Reading »First Day of Presidential Runoffs Reflects Egypt’s Troubled Transition
The last round of Egypt’s presidential elections kicked off Saturday amid speculations that the results may deal the last blow to the January 25 revolution and tighten the grip of the military junta on the helm of state. Nearly 14,000 polling centers opened their gates at eight am to millions of Egyptians, who had to choose between the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsy and Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister and a former commander of Egypt’s Air Forces Ahmed Shafiq. Each had garnered almost ...
Keep Reading »A Fork in The Road for Egypt's Political Forces: Who Will They Choose?
On the eve of the historic Egyptian presidential elections run-off vote — slated for 16 and 17 June — political parties, revolutionary groups, and activists each have different postures towards the poll. While some have decided to boycott the run-off, refusing to vote either for Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, or Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under deposed president Hosni Mubarak, others have announced endorsing one or the other. While many fear Shafiq, who ...
Keep Reading »A Third Bloc?
Since the first round of the presidential election ended, there has been much talk about the emergence of a third bloc of voters, distinct from the bloc of supporters of the ailing regime on the one hand and from that of the Muslim Brotherhood on the other. Discussions about the third bloc have been characterized by a high level of optimism after around forty percent of Egypt’s eligible voters opted for revolutionary candidates in the first round of the vote. But there is a need for caution before ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable: The Presidential Poll, Unpacked
On 29 May, Jadaliyya, in collaboration with Egypt Independent, hosted a roundtable discussion on the Egyptian presidential election. The discussion featured a group of our columnists and commentators. Moderated by Ahmad Shokr, the discussion featured American University in Cairo political science lecturers Ashraf El Sherif and Mohamed Menza; columnist Akram Ismail; human rights activist Heba Morayef; independent analysts Mohamed Naiem and Mohamed Said Ezzeldin, in addition to historian Zeinab ...
Keep Reading »حيرة واشنطن بين شفيق ومرسي
باستثناء المصريين، لا يسبق أحد الإدارة الأمريكية قلقاً وفضولاً لمعرفة هوية واسم الرئيس المقبل. وأثبتت خبرة الستين عاماً الأخيرة أن الرئيس المصري يمثل حجر الأساس الأهم للعلاقات بين القوة الأكبر فى عالم اليوم من ناحية، وبين القوة الأكبر فى الشرق الأوسط من ناحية أخرى. ويثبت التاريخ أن ميول ورؤية رئيس مصر هي ما يدفع العلاقات بين الدولتين للأمام أو يرجع بها للخلف. وكان لما آلت إليه نتائج المرحلة الأولى من حصر المنافسة الرئاسية بين مرشح جماعة الإخوان المسلمين، الدكتور محمد مرسي من ناحية، فى مواجهة ...
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