At present,
it is not clear how and when Egypt
will move towards elections, and how fair they will be. There is also no
certainty on what the likely results will be. It is a common perception that in
any fair and free elections, Muslim Brotherhood, the most organized political
party in Egypt
is likely to emerge as the largest single political block. From having just one
MP out of 444 in Egypt's
national assembly in 1995, the Brotherhood won 17 seats in 2000 and 88 in 2005.
It was humbled in the 2010 elections because of election rigging -- one of the
causes of the protests.
However, fears of the so-called Islamic revolutions everywhere are misplaced as most of the current dissent seems driven by nationalist rather than religious sentiment. In Egypt and elsewhere, the religious groups are jumping on a bandwagon others have set in motion.
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