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interpret President
Mohamed Morsy's decrees retiring the head of Egypt's military
junta and reversing its June 17 constitutional putsch stripping
the presidency of much of its executive power ... looked like a lame duck, who had been set
up to fail by a junta aggressively seeking to cement its own
direct control over Egypt's political future.
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although initial responses suggest that there's considerable
support even within the junta for kicking Tantawi and Annan
upstairs, and none of the signals that the military could respond
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According to Freedom in the World, the crucial nized around a strongman or military junta, and direct
indicators of democracy experienced setbacks in rule by the executive, sometimes through martial ... however, the strong-
net and the expectations of a better-informed public. In
men, juntas, and revolutionary councils of the era
the most sophisticated authoritarian states, profes-
realized that reasonably ... results in total-
but effectively unfair. That is, the electoral playing field itarian or junta-like settings. Eurasian presidents such
is tilted to favor the incumbents, though the balloting
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believed that the delay
was that so the judges, and Egypt's ruling military junta, could figure out a
way to cook the numbers to show a Morsi defeat. This ... office at an incredibly dangerous time in
the country's history. The ruling military junta, which had earlier promised
to hand over power at the end of June, now seems ... work cut out for him abroad as well. Though it appears
that the junta will retain control of foreign affairs and defense portfolios,
Morsi can still have
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2012-04-0627p8,417w
presidential candidate was,
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in part, a vow not to contest the junta's executive authority, which the
Brotherhood feared might invite an Algeria-like crackdown. The MB
further reassured ... repressive rule, the Brotherhood mostly stood aside and minimized its own
criticisms of the junta.
This detente seemingly solidified following the Brotherhood's
parliamentary victory, when the group appointed
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2012-07-0917p8,956w
after weeks
of mounting tension with the SCAF, including mass demonstrations against the junta's power grab, the Brotherhood is
dialing things down. It fears that agitating for more authority ... Saudi Gazette (the Kingdoms largest English daily)
castigated the Egyptian military establishment as a "junta" in their articles, and cheered the victory of Morsi devoting
significant time to the celebrations
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2012-07-0926p8,873w
after weeks of mounting tension with the
SCAF, including mass demonstrations against the junta's power grab, the
Brotherhood is dialing things down. It fears that agitating for more
EFTA01178985 ... Saudi Gazette (the Kingdoms largest English daily) castigated the
Egyptian military establishment as a "junta" in their articles, and cheered
the victory of Morsi devoting significant time to the celebrations
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