Chaos Prevails over Egypt Election

Chaos Prevails over Egypt Election

No one can tell you where Egypt is headed.

Not the revolutionary groups that have become a sideshow as politics has moved from the streets to parliament and the courts. Not the politicians who, even if they were not spending most of their time bickering and manoeuvring for advantage, are bound by rules that are a bundle of contradictions. Not the generals now nominally running the country, who sulk at the ungratefulness of their subjects and have lost whatever moral authority they may once have had. Not even the country's leading presidential candidates, all of whom may be barred from the race on various technicalities by the time of the vote. And certainly not the Egyptian people, hostage to all this political confusion, who have seen their "glorious revolution" go from crisis to crisis since Hosni Mubarak was forced out over a year ago.

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