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BY NICOLE THOMPSON
ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY
The first parliamentary elections since the ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak are underway in Egypt. So how’s this historic election day going? Here’s Fox News.
“The violence and the chaos that we have seen here firsthand in the past so far has not materialized. ... There is a massive turnout for the first free elections since the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. ... And it is potentially dangerous. There is a massive turnout of soldiers, of police. They call it maximum security. But the folks here seem to be defying all the odds. They seem to want to give democracy a chance.”
Egyptians will elect members to upper and lower chambers of parliament in six separate rounds of voting that won’t finish up until March of 2012. Who is favored to win? The Jerusalem Post reports...
“All signs point to the Muslim Brotherhood – the godfather of all Islamist movements and Egypt’s best-organized institution. ... Virtually all credible pollsters predict the Brotherhood will take control of at least a plurality, if not a majority, of parliamentary mandates.”
But some say it’s not so much about the results as it is about the process. Here’s MSNBC.
“But really, this does test the legitimacy of the democratic transition here in Egypt. If there is a good and clean process, that is going to be very good news for Egyptians.”
Egyptians are conflicted in their opinions on the legitimacy of this electoral process. Egypt’s English-language news site, Ahram Online, reports...
“Those who support taking part in the polling view elections as the only constitutional means of seeing the back of Egypt’s ruling [military government]... Those who call for boycotting the races...believe that elections will only serve to bolster the [military government]’s legitimacy. Many of the latter believe that holding polls under military rule cannot guarantee fair elections.”
But ultimately, one expert says, Egyptians just want a change. Here’s CNN.
“43 percent of the 85 million Egyptians live on less than 2 dollars a day, either in poverty or below the poverty line. The country is bankrupt, it’s broken. ... So even though many Egyptians are anxious about the role of the Muslim Brotherhood they would like a new era of civilian leadership to take over from the military because the military has only brought ruin to Egyptian civil society.”
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