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June 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“The mortal mistake was that from day one the youth never agreed on a
unified demand and never agreed to delegate authority to a group of people
to speak on their behalf.”
Mr ElBaradei said he would not be casting a vote on Sunday, but refused to
formally endorse a growing campaign for a boycott of the election.
He spoke as
the Muslim Brotherhood called on activists and opponents of the military
dictatorship to support their candidate in the presidential election
run-off, saying they would not join a boycott in protest at a court ruling
that dissolved parliament.
The group, which won the parliamentary elections that have now been ruled
invalid, issued a statement saying Egypt
was facing a “counter-revolution plainly witnessed by all”. It
said there were now “serious doubts on the potential integrity of the
electoral process”.
But it rejected a growing movement to boycott the election run-off, which over
Saturday and Sunday will choose either the Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi or
Ahmed Shafiq, a former general closely tied to the ruling Supreme Council of
the Armed Forces, as president. Many revolutionary activists are calling on
voters to spoil their ballots as a protest against what they see as
manipulation of the election.
“Dr Morsi is determined not to abandon the people who placed their
confidence and trust in him,” the statement said. It called on
Egyptians to turn out in “million-man marches” to defend the
revolution.
The ruling on Thursday by Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court said many of
the candidates in the parliamentary election were invalid. A separate ruling
overturned a parliamentary decree which would have banned Mr Shafiq from
taking part in the presidential election as a senior official in the old
regime – he was President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister.
Dr Morsi is the clear favourite in the run-off, and opposition politicians and
Egyptian and western analysts all claim that the military council feared its
powers and privileges would be threatened if both presidency and parliament
were in the Brotherhood’s hands.
The chairman of the court, Farouq Sultan, was a personal appointee of Mr
Mubarak.
But the day before the ruling, the authorities announced that military police
were being given the right to arrest civilians, a move some interpreted as a
preparation for protests that would follow a Shafiq victory.
Though the Brotherhood is being strongly promoted in mosques throughout the
country, Mr Shafiq has the backing of the powerful patronage networks who
ran the country under Mr Mubarak, as well as minority groups such as
Christians who fear Islamist domination.
Many Egyptians also fear a loss of personal freedoms if the Brotherhood come
to power. “If the Islamists win everything will change,” said
Shaouki Abdulradi, a Muslim customer of a shop selling wine and beer in
central Cairo. While the Brotherhood has promised to respect personal
liberties, Mr Abdulradi said there would be a long-term squeeze on “unIslamic
practices” like drinking alcohol.
In a statement yesterday, Amnesty International said the decision to give the
military powers of arrest had “dangerous and pervasive ramifications
for the rule of law”.
“That the Minister of Justice could now give an army responsible for
killing, torture, and thousands of arbitrary arrests and unfair trials the
power to arrest and detain civilians beggars belief. It is nothing less than
legally sanctioning abuse,” its deputy Middle East director, Hassiba
Hadj Sahraoui, said.
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