Going the Wrong Way; Egypt's Referendum  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8816 (Dec. 2012), page 14-16.
Topik: Nation's Leader; Political Referendum; Political Crisis; Secular Opposition; Constitution

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Muhammad Morsi must accommodate the secular opposition; if necessary, the West should push him It looks pretty certain that the constitution which Muhammad Morsi, Egypt's president, has presented to the people will win their endorsement in a referendum that is being held in two stages . On December 15th a majority of voters in the ten provinces polled said yes, though 57% of Cairo's 6m voters said no. On December 22nd the remaining voters, who are likely to be more conservative, will probably grant their approval, too. Mr Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party may conclude they have a mandate to guide Egypt in an Islamist direction, away from more open, permissive ways. They would be wrong to do so. This line of thinking threatens to plunge Egypt into a protracted period of impoverishing instability, which in the end will hurt Islamists as much as everyone else. The more pragmatic Islamists, perhaps including Mr Morsi, should change course while they still have time.

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