After last month’s coup d’etat, there is no real timetable for Egypt to elect a new president. What few indications we’ve gotten from the junta and its allies are that such a vote would come in late 2014 at the soonest.
But the “liberal” factions that were quick to praise the coup are increasingly making it known that they welcome the idea of a military leader taking the office, and the next election, assuming it happens at all, seems likely to be dominated by the current military brass and former Mubarak-era security officials.
Assuming the military can get together a “consensus” candidate for themselves, it could rapidly devolve into a single candidate race, as the same “liberals” have been demanding a constitutional ban on the popular Islamist parties that dominated the now ousted civilian government, and have shown no ability, despite being bankrolled by the US government, to successfully field candidates of their own.
General Abdelfatah El-Sisi would be the odd-on favorite for that spot if he wants it, but he has preferred so far to rule out of the Defense Ministry, quickly shuffling Adly Mansour, a random judge, into the “interim” top spot, with the understanding that the military is the one actually calling the shots.
If Sisi decides to keep that strategy in place, former Mubarak secret police chief Murad Mowafy is seen as a likely alternative, with reports that pro-junta businessmen have been pushing him to run. Mowafy’s infamy would’ve been a huge obstacle to political aspirations during Egypt’s recent votes, but with the popular civilian candidates all disappeared into military custody and the well-funded “pro-democracy” groups left mostly the ones on board with military rule, that obstacle is likely gone.
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Although the signs are anti American or for some is anti imperialistic but these signs are from people that are against imperialism or American foreign policies, yet that doesn't mean that the political wings of Muslim brotherhood are for democracy wanting to establish a functioning democracy in Egypt and as the basic roll they will give the right to all and every political party to participate in a democratic process electing the majority people's government. As in Turkey, the religious tyranny of ruling party, within last few years, is transformed to a religious dictatorship which the rules of shari'ah laws is the main reasons for Turkish people uprising.
Morsi, although was elected by a true votes of Egyptian people, yet he wanted to establish a Islamic Egypt ruled by the shari'ah laws and USA would liked that, because, more such regimes become alike of Saudi regime, more power will be to Saudis tyranny dictating their way in governing the entire Saudi peninsula to North Africa. Within a year Morsi wanted for Egypt and other arab nations to invade Syria whereby for Egypt to become the major political and military power. Such act would amply more power to Saudis due to Egypt economic and religious political situation needing all the help they can get. So,
beside the political game played by the WH or the other one the main issues are two: one is for america to provide more power and control to Saudis and UAE tyrants, the other is to kill democracy as Arab nationals have started their Arab spring for a functioning democracy, the idea in islamization of their nations never was there to start with, but what they got is the american plan for "democracy", a manipulative idea led by Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama and David Cameron or the Swedish king, such manipulative idea was marked as questionable "democracy" from day one which by know the Egyptian and all other Arab nationals have realized that: nothing comes out of USA political establishment without being attached to a lie or two, that is yet another reason for people around the world showing their true feeling for US government.
Right on the money, Jason.
The same crowd that cheers the military "coup which is not a coup" cheered the Occupy "movement" here. On a world scale these relatively well to do liberals and "progressives" are in fact "the 1%." They have little feeling for the great mass of people.
In the end the peoples of the Arab world must work out their own destiny. And their first task is to break the hold of Western imperial puppet institutions, like the army, on their countries. In that light the liberals or progressives must be seen as the one of the main enemies of progress in Egypt now.
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If one looks at Iran, one can see that an Islamic Republic is capable of economic development and of harboring democratic institutions. If Western values are truly universal, they will eventually out. Western colonial schemes will only hinder their emergence.
What will eventually happen is that the FedGov gets Mubarak v. 2.0. A dictator with a power base in the military is DC's preferred form of puppet.