Egypt approves presidential runners, voters perplexed

April 26, 2012 09:00

Egypt's election commission has announced 13 candidates are eligible to run in the forthcoming presidential election. The list includes ultraconservative Islamists, as well as ex-president Hosni Mubarak`s former ministers.

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Vote your voice 27.04.2012 11:52

I believe it is better to use your vote than to give it away. You need to come forward and vote in order to see the change you want to happen your un used vote is really another way of giving away your vote to the opposition who ever might be. You can demand your own neighbourhood to be present at the voting stations and at the vote counting so reduce corruption. 

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Max (unregistered) 27.04.2012 11:36

Some of the candidates are from the previous regime and the fact the Egyptians revolution took place against those it is ironic that they still think they can be a candidate in the new Egypt. This is not right you make a revolution to get rid of one system and its cronies not to give them legitimacy to participate in the future of the country. They should have been automatically disqualified by the New Egyptian candidacy rules.  

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Maple Leaf 27.04.2012 08:22

Hey Maple Leaf wrote in #18 No offense but maybe you should have stepped up your game in the Mideast. Rather than riding the coatails of America No offense, but It's not a secret.  And Canada is more anti Muslim than America so get your facts straight. Maybe  YOU should get your facts straight.  I don't agree with the Canadian Governments foreign policy or international behaviour.  Canadian troops should all come home and stay here.  And about anti-muslim feelings in Canada, I haven't seen any survey results, but I think such sentiments have been growing in the western world.  Western propaganda, depecting muslims as evil, has been very effective.  I don't share such feelings. 

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Hey Maple Leaf 27.04.2012 02:07

No offense but maybe you should have stepped up your game in the Mideast. Rather than riding the coatails of America No offense, but It's not a secret.  And Canada is more anti Muslim than America so get your facts straight.

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Maple Leaf 27.04.2012 00:57

A free and fair election in Egypt would probably result in a Moslem Brotherhood victory.  But with the American/Israeli coalition in full control of the situation, the election outcome will be more of the same.   No matter who wins the election, the American Empire will bribe them into submission with personal payoffs and billions in financial aid.

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After Russia openly stated 26.04.2012 23:50

to kill all the protesters in the Free Syrian Army, Egypty and most of Syria just doesn't trust Russia and or China.  Good Veto dumbshts.

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Bianca 26.04.2012 23:41

This kind of nonsense is hard to read.  And how are the islamist candidates "feared"?  By whom?  And who is exactly complaining against the military handling of the transition?   A small but loud groups that want "secular'  --- translate, managed by foreign governments --- rule of Egypt.  The politics of the situation was rather simple.  The Superme Court is still full of Mubarak leftovers that will do th bidding of whatever foreign country wants to dominate Egypt.  They were the obstacle to getting candidates out, and organizing elections.   Egypt already had Parliamentary elections, and the islamic candidtes WON, and WON big.  This is no suprise in a country that jailed and killed leaders of these populist parties for decades under Mubarak.   DEMOCRACY is supposed to work this way.   Populists are in charge of Turkey, and they have improved their economy and cleaned up the hornets nest in military.   In Egypt the court realized that they cannot block elections forever,  so they did what they can to DESTROY democracy,  by having hundreds of candidates run, and hopefully, split the vote.   And PLEASE,  why would anyone want Amr Musa to be the President?   The joke in Washington was that he was going to run, whether he knew if or not.  That is when he was still the head of Arab League.   The best outcome is to let elections happen --- and stop dragging the process.  It is not the military that is dragging it --- but all kinds of secularists that have less then 1% of support in the country, but want a big share of power.    I

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The Beak 26.04.2012 22:36

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) of Egypt should all arrested and imnprisoned and tried for FRAUD. If Egypt could find another GAMEL ABDEL NASEER these criminals will be stopped. They about to continue to enslave all Egyptians in collusion with the MB.

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The Voters are not "perplexed" ...they are just refusing to vote 26.04.2012 19:58

because all egyptians know its a fraud and that all choices lead to the same regime!

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Al Azar islamic University In Cairo 26.04.2012 18:37

Sign up for a course in cairo today! The most respected islamic school in the world acredited and endorsed by the G W Bush foundation and AIPAC.

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Ultraconservative orthodox muslim my ar$e! 26.04.2012 18:32

i would not trust any candidate the dictator has aproved of nor would i even take part in such a fraud election. It is clear for all to see that this is a war between secularist fundamentalists who do not concider religious people as having a right to take part in an election and the democratic majority will of the people to have an islamic govt.

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YOU THINK THE ZION REGIME IS GOING TO LET AN ORTHODOX MUSLIM IN POWER? 26.04.2012 17:09

When you here the zionist Mubarak regime calling a candidate an orthodox muslim what this actually means is "The kind of muslim that thinks visiting strip clubs is approved of in sharia law".All choices lead to the same secularist govt policy. The Egyptian govt stratergy of banning candidates in the hope that this will cause egyptians to support the banned candidates will also fail misserably.  

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CIA/Mossad with assistance from the ghost of Sayyid Qutb. 26.04.2012 14:34

It is gradually becoming obvious even to brainwashed people like ourselves the the Zionist/Vatican organised crime syndicate that ruled the world in the last century has finally collapsed under the weight of its own hypocrisy greed and hubristic arrogance .........and has stupidly handed the keys to the global treasury over to Communists in Asia and the rest of the BRICS countries........ while completely wrecking western civilisation and betraying all the Enlightenment values we folks at the CIA have flagrantly ignored during the last seventy years.
We apologise for using our power and your money to betray and enslave you....... and torture and murder people who objected to Zionist fascist imperialism.  
We wish to rehabilitate ourselves by rounding up the real crooks in this world and putting them on fair and lawful public trial....rather than doing what we used to do before we changed our wicked extra-judicial ways.
Sorry!

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Kenny (unregistered) 26.04.2012 13:50

The US Government has left its grubby finger prints all over this debacle. Geopolitically, Egypt is too significant to be allowed to succumb to true democracy. True democracy would see an Islamist landslide. The aim of the game is to create a rainbow coalition that is riddled with pro-Israel representatives

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Sayyid Qutb 26.04.2012 13:44

They already have a president....Preside nt Netanyahu and his CIA ruling party!
But just let them try to "vote" him out of office and NATO will bomb them until they realise who has been boss for seventy years.....and will remain so!

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free_mind50 26.04.2012 11:15

Their not perplexed, the revolution has been hijacked and the revolutionaries  hoodwinked. The I told you so' are coming soon.

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