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NSF to reject unfair parliamentary elections
[Egypt Independent] The National Salvation Front said Tuesday it will reject parliamentary elections unless authorities guarantee they will be fair and subject to international monitoring.

The announcement came after a three-hour closed meeting that included Dostour chief Mohamed ElBaradei
Egyptian law scholar and Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. After stepping down from his IAEA position ElBaradei attempted to horn in on the 2011 Egyptian protests which culminated in the collapse of the Mubarak regime. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee.
, Wafd Party leader Al-Sayed al-Badawy and Freedom and Justice Party Chairman Saad al-Katatny.

Hamdeen Sabbahi, founder of the Popular Current Party, did not attend.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!...
NSF leaders and other political parties admitted it would be difficult to hold parliamentary elections after the Constitutional Court found several articles of the new elections law unconstitutional. The Shura Council has been tasked to amend the regulations.

"The Constitution was born dead," said Mostafa al-Tawil, the honorary president of the Wafd Party. "The regime is improvising with no consideration or respect for people's desires."

"The Moslem Brüderbund made a tailored constitution that is full of loopholes," he added. "The Constitutional Court's response was expected."

For his part, Refaat al-Saeed of the Tagammu Party said the Shura Council is unlikely to abide by the court's ruling. "This is the chaos we live in now," he said.

Osama al-Ghazaly Harb of the Gabha Party called on the NSF to boycott the elections, saying, "Otherwise, [the NSF] would succumb to the Moslem Brüderbund," he said, contending that the Islamists are lost much of their popularity.

Sameh Ashour of the Nasserist Party called for the postponement of the elections until national consensus is reached.

Posted by: Fred 2013-02-20
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=362652