On the Egyptian Opposition. By Issandr El Amrani. The Arabist, February 27, 2013.
More on Egypt and Morsi here.
El Amrani:
The
National Salvation Front’s recent decision to boycott the upcoming
parliamentary elections in Egypt that reminded me I have been thinking of
writing a post on the subject of the Egyptian opposition for weeks. Warning: it’s
a long post.
Anyone
who follows Egyptian politics will have probably made two broad conclusions by
now. First, that the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohammed Morsi, out of a
combination poor judgement, paranoia and greed, have made the choice of sacrificing
the possibility of a stable and inclusive transition for the sake of
consolidating their control over the old regime machinery rather than reforming
it. Second, that the “liberal” or secular opposition gathered under the banner
of the National Salvation Front (NSF) is missing a golden opportunity to
benefit from the Brotherhood’s actions and the public indignation they have
caused by behaving in an utterly politically clueless manner. Let us deal with
the second part of that equation.
