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February
27 - March 1, 2005
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 Continuing
reactions to President Hosni Mubarak's decision to amend the constitution
to turn electing the president into a direct poll with multiple
candidates...
Boston Herald says the key is a US
administration that "walks
the walk"...
This AFP piece on the opposition not
being prepared to run against Mubarak features an amusing typo --
Wafd leader Noman Gomaa is called Human
Gomaa...
Plus, Wafd's criticism of the limited
nature of the implementation of Mubarak's proposal.
Even Mauritanians are thrilled
about the news...
Hope
and apprehension seem to be the key words to describe
Egyptians' reactions to Mubarak's move... prominent columnist
Magdi Mehanna calls it the most important in 50 years...
Guardian connects the Hend El-Hinawy
Ahmed El-Fishawy paternity suit to Mubarak's decision -- saying taboos
are crumbling all over the place.
Business Week says that "Like
the Lebanese, Egyptians can smell
the end of an era."
This commentary says Islamists must
be allowed to have a role.
Hisham Kassem to Christian Science
Monitor: "I still can't believe
I am talking about open presidential elections in Egypt... If I don't get
beaten up or arrested and dumped in a cell, I now think I may
actually see democracy here within my lifetime."
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MUBARAK
REACTIONS
The Washington Post cautiously applauds Mubarak's move, but
couples that with a warning
that "the danger of a false reform is great." Another
Post article credits
Bush and the war on Iraq for the transformations taking place...
FT says
Mubarak surprised
his own party as much as his opponents. It also quotes an expert
as saying that opposition parties have no chance of competing for
the presidency as long as the media and state security are closely
tied to the ruling party.
Reuters
also says Mubarak would sweep
the elections in any case... AP's latest version quotes several opposition
groups...
Christian Science
Monitor is skeptical,
and LA Times quotes
a lot of skeptical Cairenes...
Another LA Times piece looks at the decision from a USAID
angle...
AP gets a few
early comments on the sudden announcement by
President Hosni Mubarak about amending the constitution
to turn electing the president into a direct poll with multiple
candidates... Another AP
story sums up the current system, and the new
proposals... Another
AP story quotes several opposition
commentators (including Ayman Nour and the Muslim
Brotherhood), many of whom fear
Mubarak's move is only cosmetic... Plus, here's Reuters's
take.
The New York Times reports that
Washington is cautiously
optimistic, and won't comment on whether it was pressure from
their side that inspired the move. Another NY Times story quotes Essam
El-Erian and Ibrahim Eissa...
A BBC analysis calls
the move "very
astute".
Arab News quotes
Egyptian expats
in Saudi Arabia as being happy with the move... Khaleej Times does
the same in Dubai...
Meanwhile, Nour ends
his prison hunger strike in reaction,
and protestors want
him released...
...
MORE WEB LOG
FEBRUARY
25
Lots
of miscellaneous
FEBRUARY
23
Egyptomania
and more
FEBRUARY
21
Complicated
conference
FEBRUARY
19
Post
Sharm moves
FEBRUARY
17
Controversial
politics
FEBRUARY
15
Ghad's
woes
FEBRUARY
12
Analyzing
Sharm
FEBRUARY 5
Last
seperate
JANUARY 30
End
of tolerance?
JANUARY 24
No
legitimacy
JANUARY 20
Still
talking
about the election
JANUARY 12
Running
for prez
JANUARY 6
Nuke
charges
pop up again
JANUARY 3
Khafre's
turn
DECEMBER 29
His
own money
DECEMBER 23
Fayed
is back
DECEMBER 20
Waking
from
a deep slumber?
DECEMBER 17
"Make
undies,
not war"
DECEMBER 14
Bugging
Baradie
DECEMBER 12
It's
all about peace
DECEMBER 8
A
post-Arafat thaw?
DECEMBER 6
Six
students
for Azzam Azzam?
DECEMBER 2
Big
money
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