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previous post. 'Not yet a democracy' from The Economist Global Agenda:
What troubled some observers as much as the Brotherhood’s surge
or the government’s panicked response was the near-extinction at the polls
of the secular opposition. Enfeebled by emergency laws that preclude normal
political activity, the country’s 15 featherweight legal opposition parties
failed to gain a dozen seats between them. Oddly, that has not prevented
the government from continuing to hound them. Ayman Nour, a liberal who won
8% of votes cast, making him the closest challenger to Mr Mubarak in September’s
presidential elections, not only lost his parliamentary seat to a heavily
funded NDP challenger but has been remanded in custody on a flimsy forgery
charge.
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