Talk:Politics of Egypt

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Contents 1 Constitutional Amendment 2 Parliamentary Elections 3 Parliamentary Elections vs Parties 4 Political pressure groups & leaders 5 Badly lacking NPOV - draconian restrictions - what are they? 6 The first President? 7 Fascinating?

[edit] Constitutional Amendment

how should we add stuff about recent constitution ammendment? I need help with the outline

Well, it shouldnt be very difficult to compare the situation as it was (single-candidate referendum), with the new Article 76. However, it is important to cover the practical aspects of both versions of the article; ie, the process by which a new president was/is elected in each case. The NDP is very conniving about it, having tailored the article to make it excessively difficult for the muslim brotherhood (their only real viable competitor) to nominate a presidential candidate. Bassemkhalifa 11:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parliamentary Elections

Someone should add information on the 2005 parliamentary elections. There's much to talk about: rigging of all sorts; violence; wide-scale vote-buying; the MB and its success; the failures of the secular opposition; the failure of the opposition to form a so-called "unified front"; the embarassingly poor performance of NDP candidates despite everything beaing geared to their advantage; the NDP's going back on its word to not readmit NDP candidates who, having not been picked on official lists, decided to run independently; Bassemkhalifa 11:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parliamentary Elections vs Parties

I think this should be reorganized.

There is a section that talks about parliamentary elections in general and then one that talks about parties and parliamentary elections. How about following sections: 1. Parliament - (general stuff like election system, power, etc..); 2. Parties; 3. Parliamentary Elections. Bassemkhalifa 11:56, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Political pressure groups & leaders

"Despite a constitutional ban against religious-based parties, the technically illegal Muslim Brotherhood constitutes Mubarak's potentially most significant political opposition..."

A constitutional ban against religious-based parties? Technically illegal party??? Ladies and gents...this is simply not true. I went through all the articles of the Egyptian Constitution (both Arabic & English, just to ensure congruency between the translation), and have found no such clauses that prevent religious-based parties or any other parties...so my question is: what makes the Muslim Brotherhood an "illegal" party? Nothing that I am aware of...and if this is the case, I propose removing this section or editing it to reflect this fact. --Jamal 10:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Badly lacking NPOV - draconian restrictions - what are they?

The article seems to have some serious NPOV problems. Specifically, when it speaks of the multi-candidate presidential polls, it says the "new law placed draconian restrictions on the filing for presidential candidacies, designed to prevent well-known candidates such as Ayman Nour from standing against Mubarak, and paved the road for his easy re-election victory." While I am not particularly disputing this, perhaps instead of labelling the restrictions "draconian", there should be a description of what the restrictions are so the readers can come to their own decision as to whether or not they are draconian. At the very least, some references should be cited for this.

Also, there seems to be some weasel wording when it says "most Egyptians are skeptical about the process of democratisation and the role of the elections" - perhaps this is true, but it's easy to say and lacks any sort of substantiation.

As I said, I'm not debating the merits of the changes, just the description of them and their effect on the people. Sweeping statements need backup, and strong adjectives like "draconian" should be left to the reader to insert. Kurt 07:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The first President?

Hi, just poking in this page if you don't mind. I was just wondering why in the "Background" of the article doesn't have the first Egyptian Preident,Muhammad Naguib. I think it would be important for this section.--65.54.154.153 21:08, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

It does now have Muhammad Naguib listed in the Background section. A Note about the background section: It took me a couple of reads to get the order of Presidents correct. It jumps around a bit, from the first President, it jumps to the fourth. It states that Mr. Murarak is the current President (since 1981), but then it states that Dr. Ebeid was sworn in as Prime Minister in 2004. Does Egypt have two governments, or is this a mistake? 65.93.87.241 (talk) 00:16, 4 January 2008 (UTC)Donnyj

[edit] Fascinating?

What's the deal with that?

Would you mind being more specific? Donnyj (talk) 00:05, 9 January 2008 (UTC)donaldj