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the egyptian system was more democratic than others but still not great. I was in their country during an election year a a few years ago. Everywhere you went there were posters and pictures of Mubarek. It was explained to me that the people vote if they want to keep Mubarek or not. If 51% say they want to keep him, there is no election. If less than 51% want to keep him there can be an election. The problem is to run against him you had to have 1/3rd of thier parliment ( or whatever they call thier congress ) to "endorse " you so a total of 3 people could, technically run, Mubarek and two others but getting that endorsement it pretty tricky and in many cases nearly impossible.
hopefully they will have a more free type election, the egyption people, as I experinced them, are good people that like amercians and have a good outlook towards the future.
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