Egypt Joke Election, 2015

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Is occurring this month. I expect you'll be bowled over to find out that Sisi loyalists have swept. I congratulate the successful president on his inspiring platform: don't stand against us, or we'll arrest you and sentence you to death. Truly caught the attention of Egyptians with an impressive 28% turnout. Anyway, the Sisi party is expected to agree with the president's desire to weaken whatever autonomy granted to the legislative branch and vest it all in the President's hands. That will of course end well.

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Oh how's this for a fantastic system: the pro-Sisi coalition has won every single list seat. Winner takes all bloc elections are literal insanity.

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I disagree. Morsi basically (as well as being a deeply unpleasant figure from an authoritarian and suspicious organisation) was really, really incompetent (like, Tony Abbott/Flanby levels of competence). At the end of the day, he promised a lot and didn't really deliver, and alienated every faction in the process. It would have ended like Tunisia - the Islamists swept aside as their mystique faded amongst a pile of broken promises. Like Tunisia, there would have probably been some ex-regime tools reentering, but their ambitions would have been checked. Now the military has shown up the secular "opposition" to be cowards with little regard for the ideals they preach (as well as the western powers in the region) and the MB can build up their huge local base again. I don't see any good scenario, unless I had BAE stocks.