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| Egypt Constitution Approved By 98.1% |
| 2014-01-27 |
| [Ynet] Supreme electoral commission reports that Egypt military-backed constitution was approved by 98.1% in first vote since coup toppled country's president As the famous philosopher R.Ricardo once commented: "I dun blivit." Egypt's election committee reported on Saturday that 98.1% of voters have approved a new, military-backed constitution in the first vote since a coup toppled the country's president. Any bloc of "agreement" greater than 90 percent is fixed. Greater than 80 percent is probably fixed. You'll always find that many people who'll vote "no" just to be ornery. Egypt's High Election Commission said Saturday that 38.6% of the country's more than 53 million eligible voters took part in the two-day poll. Officials say 20.6 million voters cast ballots, with some 20.3 million votes counted after eliminating those voided. So they're five percent up on the number who voted in favor of the Moslem Brüderbund constitution. Five's a nice round number. This is the first vote since the military removed Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , following massive protests in July. Officials view the vote as key in legitimizing the country's military-backed interim government and its plan for parliamentary and presidential elections. But Morsi's supporters and his outlawed Moslem Brüderbund group boycotted the vote and have alleged the results were forged. Me'n Ricky agree with them. The Brotherhood has vowed to keep up their near-daily protests. I don't agree with that. I dunno if Ricky does or not. Ask him. "A democratic transition should be characterized by an expansion of freedoms, but Egyptians have seen substantial restrictions on the exercise of their democratic rights," said Eric Bjornlund, Democracy International's president and head of the observation mission in Egypt. No! Reeeeeeeally? Democracy International, which had some 80 observers in Egypt, said on voting days it noted that a heavy security deployment and the layout of some of the polling stations "could have jeopardized voters' ability to cast a ballot in secret." "There is no evidence that such problems substantially affected the outcome of this referendum, but they could affect the integrity or the credibility of more closely contested electoral processes in the future," the group said in a statement Friday. I'm guessing the new constitution would have won in an honest vote, but that the dishonesty is going to blight it. In the lead up to the vote, police incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! those campaigning for a "no" vote on the referendum, leaving little room for arguing against the document. On Friday, supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi erupted into the streets to denounce the draft charter. Morsi was deposed in a popularly backed military coup July 3 and the previous constitution was drafted under his government. Some protests turned violent. Four people were killed in the ensuing festivities, Egypt's Health Ministry said Saturday. It said 15 people were maimed nationwide. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Just like Detroit or Philadelphia. Amazing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-01-27 08:54 |
| #1 The good old times of 95+ percent approval are back. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-01-27 03:28 |