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Egypt and the Elections: The "Strategic Blunder" of President Mubarak's Party (Hamid)
Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 7:31 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
There is no transition whose beginning is not the consequences --- direct or indirect --- of important divisions within the authoritarian regime itself. Those divisions, in Egypt, are only likely to grow.
For the National Democratic to make a strategic blunder at such a crucial moment in Egypt's history suggests a regime that is nervous, unsure of itself and increasingly incoherent.
The Parliamentary elections were the first such mistake. Whether there will be more ---- and whether the opposition manages to capitalise --- will determine the course Egypt takes in the coming, critical months.