Egypt Elections

By Micah Halpern

I've Been Thinking:

Egypt is voting for their president. Saturday and Sunday are the two runoff days.

This election takes place two days after the Egyptian Supreme Court dissolved the 75% Islamic controlled parliament. The two candidates running for president are polar opposites. One represents the Islamists, the other served as PM under Mubarak and was head of the Egyptian air force.

As of now it looks like voter turnout is lower than it was in the first primaries for president - and significantly lower than the parliamentary elections of six months ago.

This is all expected.

In the first elections for parliament, the people of Egypt rejected Mubarak. First elections always are like that, a rejection of the past. But as time passes, people realize that the new alternative, in this case the Islamists, know even less about governing than the regime they have just rejected. They return to the middle in the hope that this time around they will be able to oust the extremists they have just voted in to power.

The Supreme Court laid the foundation for this by disbanding the parliament. Now we wait for the results.

Micah@MicahHalpern.com 

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