Tuesday, September 6, 2005

The democracy gods on vacation

The Egyptian Administrative Court has cancelled an election committee’s decision to ban 1700 judges from monitoring Egypt's first presidential elections, saying the elections law does not authorise such decision.

The court on Tuesday also backed the election committee in banning civil rights organisations from monitoring the elections but rejected the disqualification of the presidential candidate Ahmed Al-Uqsuri.
AND...
The government on Tuesday warned that it will not tolerate election day protests, and the opposition fretted about possible ruling party dirty tricks on the eve of Egypt's first contested presidential vote.
Dirty tricks? Isn't that a part of democracy? I mean, it's what we have here in the States, you know, the gops disenfranchising people and junk...

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