Egyptians vote out Arab Spring

Preliminary results indicate that the Party for Freedom and Justice (FJP), which has close ties to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, has won the first round of voting in Egypt's parliamentary elections. That does not bode well for the country's democratisation, writes the Christian paper Kristeligt Dagblad: "The Muslim Brothers say that they want to build their government on a broad foundation of support. They don't really want to govern with the Salafists but with their own centre parties. This would be ideal for the Brotherhood because it gives them to a fig leaf for cover while internally they pursue an Islam-oriented agenda. If the Muslim Brothers unexpectedly democratise the country and create effective institutions and a pluralist society naturally one should support them. But unfortunately we must prepare ourselves for the more likely eventuality that the democratic revolution will be indefinitely postponed in Egypt."

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