#Egypt compilation - Parliamentary #Elections in 2011Nov/Dec. This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Elections 2011.
The second stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections started today, with Egyptians in nine provinces going to the polls. Zeinobia, from Egyptian Chronicles, blogs about this stage saying that polling stations will be open in Giza, Bani Sawif, Monufia, Sharkia, Ismailia, Suez, Beheira, Sohag and Aswan. She adds: There are 3,387 candidates across the 9 governorates competing for 180 seats in this stage. “2,271 are competing for 60 individual seats while 1,116 are competing over 120 lists seats” The elections, the first since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak, started on November 28 and are expected to continue until January 10, 2012, and are being held in three stages. About 19 million Egyptians are eligible to vote in this second stage, which continue until tomorrow.
Here is a snap shot of reactions from Twitter about is happening in different provinces across Egypt today. And continues: Rageh observes: She tweets: Elections 101: Egypt's new electoral system explained. An infograph by OREED.org sums up Egypt's new electoral system.
Click here to download pdf of this infograph. By Heba Fahmy / Daily News Egypt November 16, 2011, 5:41 pm CAIRO: Egypt’s electoral system is “complicated and difficult for any ordinary Egyptian to comprehend and implement," experts believe, as political powers remain optimistic that it will help them secure a place in a parliament long dominated by members of the former regime. The first parliamentary elections following the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak are expected to attract an electorate that traditionally boycotted elections. Over 18 million Egyptians voted in a referendum in March, an indication of voter confidence in a new era free of the rigging and electoral fraud that tainted the previous one. Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011–2012 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011–2012. A parliamentary election to the People's Assembly of Egypt was held from 28 November 2011 to 11 January 2012,[1] following the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, after which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolved the parliament of Egypt.
However the dissolution was ruled unconstitutional and Parliament was reinstated. Originally, the election had been scheduled to be held in September 2011, but was postponed amid concerns that established parties would gain undue advantage.[2] Sous les révoltes arabes. Sous les révoltes arabes, par Raphaël Kempf. Illégalismes populaires et résistances quotidiennes À propos de : Asef Bayat , Life as Politics – How Ordinary People Change the Middle East , Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2009, 320 p., 21,95 $. L'auteur du livre : Asef Bayat est né et a grandi en Iran. Il a vécu la révolution islamique de 1979 avant d’étudier en Grande-Bretagne, puis de mener une carrière de professeur de sociologie.
Il enseigne aujourd’hui aux États-Unis, à l’université de l’Illinois, et est notamment l’auteur de Street Politics: Poor Peoples Movements in Iran (Columbia University Press, 1997), de Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (Stanford University Press, 2007) et de Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (Oxford University Press, 2010). L’affaire est entendue : c’est l’explosion de la rue qui a fait chuter les raïs tunisien et égyptien au début de l’année 2011. Quand les plus pauvres empiètent sur le terrain des possédants. The contradictions of the Arab Spring by Immanuel Wallerstein. The contradictions of the Arab Spring. The turmoil in Arab countries that is called the Arab Spring is conventionally said to have been sparked by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in a small village of Tunisia on December 17, 2010.
The massive sympathy this act aroused led, in a relatively short time, to the destitution of Tunisia’s president and then to that of Egypt’s president. In very quick order thereafter, the turmoil spread to virtually every Arab state and is still continuing. Most of the analyses we read in the media or on the internet neglect the fundamental contradiction of this phenomenon – that the so-called Arab Spring is composed of two quite different currents, going in radically different directions.
One current is the heir of the world-revolution of 1968. The “1968 current” might better be called the “second Arab revolt”. Its objective is to achieve the global autonomy of the Arab world that the “first Arab revolt” had sought to achieve. Read full article as PDF.