Egypt sets Oct election date, after three years without parliament

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will hold a long-awaited parliamentary election, starting on Oct. 18-19, the election commission said on Sunday, the final step in a process to bring back democracy that critics say has been tainted by widespread repression.

Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012 when a court dissolved the democratically elected main chamber, dominated by the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, reversing a major accomplishment of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

The election had been due to begin in March but was delayed after a court ruled part of the election law unconstitutional.

A second round of voting in the two-phase election will take place on Nov. 22-23, the election commission told a news conference. Voting for Egyptians abroad will take place on Oct. 17-18.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-hold-parliamentary-election-starting-october-18-19-172028941.html

[oberliner]

1. That seems like a positive development

Elections are a pretty important part of being a democracy.

[happyslug]

2. Yes, Fair elections just like the Elections Stalin and Hitler held....

The Communist Government of the Soviet Union had elections in the following years

1921
1924
1925
1927
1929
1931
1935
1936
1937
1946
1950
1954
1958
1962
1966
1970
1974
1979
1984
1989

In the 1927 to 1953 period, when Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union, he held over EIGHT elections, once every three years. He only stopped HOLD ELECTIONS the same year Britain did, in 1938 and held one within a year of the first post war British Election (The First post war British election was held in 1945). Thus in the period 1927 to 1937, Stalin held SIX elections, either a year or two years apart of each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_legislative_election,_1950

Hitler was NOT as good, once in power by 1934, he only held election every four years, 1934, 1938. Another election had been scheduled for 1942 and delayed till the end of the war, just like in the Soviet Union and Britain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_referendum,_1934

Thus the election scheduled by Sisi offer to be as fair as the elections of Nasser in 1956, 1958 and 1965, for Sadat in 1970 and 1976 and for Murabak, in 1981, 1987, 1993, 1999, and 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_presidential_election,_2005

In the above election, only Mursi in 2012 failed to get over 90% of the vote, thus showing how little support Mursi had in Egypt compared to Sisi who received 96.91% in 2014 (Sadat in 1970 only received 90% of the vote, the lowest of any President except Mursi).

[oberliner]

3. Are you saying Egypt shouldn't hold elections?

Not sure how that would be better.

[happyslug]

4. My comment is these elections will NOT reflect what the people of Egypt wants

But instead will be used by the present government to justify their continue rule, just like Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak used their elections (and like Hitler and Stalin used the elections held by them).

These elections are going to be like the above elections, a show election which does NOT reflect what the people of Egypt want. It will be a show election, showing the people in the west, that the government we support is "Popular" with the people of Egypt, just like Stalin's rule and Hitler's rule (and Saddam Hussein's) rule were "Popular" with the people.