Uneventful election day in Egypt as Muslim Brotherhood Kept Away

The first day of the Egyptian elections Monday closed smoothly. Ten months after the overthrow of the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, left  president  elections in Egypt, the recently retired quarterback Sisi Abdelfatá to caress an expected landslide victory. Al Sisi is about to establish itself as yet another Egyptian military leader in the tradition of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. Although Al Sisi does not use his likeness in the copious electoral propaganda that has spread throughout Cairo, his critics linked to Hosni Mubarak, the deposed autocrat in 2011 after mass protests known as the Arab Spring.

The nomination of the leftist Hamdin Sabbahi, only adversary Al Sisi, just away the impression that Egypt participates in a mere democratic plebiscite after the open parenthesis with blood for the revolution of 2011 and closed with blood for the coup of 2013.

On Monday, the streets were cairotas Al Sisi. The busiest polling stations, including Al Saud in the upscale neighborhood of Heliopolis, and at noon were a party of victory. Neighbors as company Nagua Abu Naga, managed an advertising agency, proclaimed his Al Sisi loyalty between big laughs. Younger sang and danced in the queue that took them to the polls. To glad rampant military school that turned into a fortress with snipers, machine guns and sandbags, no one doubted on street that Al Sisi win.

Calmer and more elegant is the electoral college of the Faculty of Fine Arts, chosen by many Egyptian television as a stage for their electoral shots on Monday and Tuesday. This noble area of the megalopolis is always well guarded by their embassies and public buildings, so the controls are more lax vote and almost gives an impression of democratic normality. Amal Fahmy, a neighbor who at 80 years had to go in a wheelchair, explained in excellent English Al Sisi will vote “no doubt” because ” is the man of the revolution.” The man who pushed his chair smiling and nodding, like the cops who came to greet Fahmy obviously a celebrity in the neighborhood. When heard of Morsi was frowned: ” What a disappointment, what incompetent.”

As tens of thousands of his fellow Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi is in jail. The members of the Brotherhood and other prohibited by the interim government imposed by the coup of Al Sisi, as Democrats protest the Sixth of April Youth movements called for abstention in these presidential elections.

Polling the tremendous avenues of Nasser City, were crowded early in the morning. In one of the largest, the presiding officer Khaled Mahmud explained that ” these elections are functioning like the above.” But they can not be present parties like the Muslim Brotherhood. Does this not undermine democracy? Judge Mahmud showed calm disagree: “People are happy to vote freely and to choose among the candidates running now.”

In the queue waiting their turn a 19 years old and shaggy hair called Abadelhamid Sharaf, who admitted that the only leftist Sabbahi vote, “because it has program.” An elderly man after he rudely interrupted: ” A program of shit.” Sharaf said wondering what program presents Al Sisi.

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