‘What we are seeing in the streets of Cairo is less a revolution seeking to take shape than a haggling process. The leaders of the Egyptian political parties want to be able to choose all the parliamentary candidates through naming them to parliamentary lists. That would make party leaders the chief power brokers in a parliamentary regime. The military wants more MPs to be elected as individuals, weakening the parties and making it easier for the real powers in the country to manipulate the parliamentary process.’
Related On This Site: Walter Russell Mead At The American Interest: ‘French Secularism Dies In the Middle East’…From The National Interest Via The A & L Daily: ‘Rawls Visits the Pyramids’…Francis Fukuyama At The American Interest Online: ‘Political Order in Egypt’
From Abu Muqawama: ‘Mubarak And Me’…
