| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/07/01, 9:54 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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As a side note to Egyptian politics, by law, the military does not vote. The reasoning behind that policy is to keep the military above politics and "neutral". In practical terms, that translates into approximately 2 million fewer votes cast. It is likely then, that Mursi would not have been elected if that policy had not been in effect.
The article:
Millions of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist
President Mohamed Mursi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he
resign in the biggest challenge so far to rule by his Muslim Brotherhood.
Waving national flags and chanting "Get out!", a crowd of nearly 500,000 massed in and around
Cairo's central Tahrir Square in by far the largest demonstration since
the 2011 uprising that overthrew Mursi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
"The people want the fall of the regime!" they shouted, echoing the Arab Spring rallying cry that brought down Mubarak - this time yelling it not against an ageing dictator but against the first elected leader in
Egypt's 5,000-year recorded history.
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