Results of Referendum, round ONE
The pro-Muslim Brotherhood press, and the Brotherhood itself, claim that 56% of Egyptians voting in Round One of the Referendum process voted YES. Opposition press and parties and individuals who are against the "new regime" say that votes were stolen, the process was rigged, ballots were "stuffed" into boxes with "YES" already marked.
In short - nothing terribly new for Egyptian election politics.
But then again ... Egypt is indeed striking out in fundamentally new directions. a new Constitution is being presented to the public; there are splits between a seeming majority of Islamists or pro-Islamists and "the rest of Egypt." And the polls that I saw were filled with "real voters" - people of all "walks of life" coming out to express what they feel will be their accurately recorded vote, one way or the other. That spirit of democracy building seems very real, even if there is pessimism about the end result: an Islamist-inspired constitution.
Round TWO is next Saturday. Exciting stuff!
In short - nothing terribly new for Egyptian election politics.
But then again ... Egypt is indeed striking out in fundamentally new directions. a new Constitution is being presented to the public; there are splits between a seeming majority of Islamists or pro-Islamists and "the rest of Egypt." And the polls that I saw were filled with "real voters" - people of all "walks of life" coming out to express what they feel will be their accurately recorded vote, one way or the other. That spirit of democracy building seems very real, even if there is pessimism about the end result: an Islamist-inspired constitution.
Round TWO is next Saturday. Exciting stuff!
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