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Egypt’s Protests Threaten Muslim Brotherhood’s Ride to Power
Egypt’s election, which is to start Monday, is as much a referendum on the powerful Muslim Brotherhood as it is about a transition to civilian rule. Until this past weekend, it was assumed that the election was the Muslim Brotherhood’s to lose. Now it appears they may do just that. The Islamist movement’s recent political strategy to co-operate with the country’s interim military leadership rather than to criticize it is effectively splitting the organization, and may well cost its Freedom and Justice Party the victory. It started with the Brotherhood leaders’ decision this week not to join protesters back in Tahrir Square calling for the handover of power by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Now it seems there is also a decision to support a new military-appointed government.
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