Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Bad Democracy Award

Tom Burgis from open Democracy has introduced the Bad Democracy pool, where YOU can participating in choosing the worst democrat of the month. It could be a politician or an institution. At the end of the year, each month´s winner will take part in the vote for the Bad Democracy Award for the entire year worldwide.

If choosing the bad democrat in Egypt, the Arab World or the entire planet , who would YOU vote for ? And what about the opposite , a best democracy award ?

My nominatitions for this month is Nouman Gouma and Ayman Nour, who could´nt bury their hatchets and form an all inclusive opposition list, the National Front. If Tagamau and the Ikhwan could make a partial truce, it seems rather odd, that the two party leaders with the most in common ideologically, can´t put their personal problems aside for a bigger cause.

In the arab world the award this month in my view must be a chrushing victory for the Syrian regime, perhaps with a suplementary award to Emile Lahud.

The idea is a little bit like my own list , Hot & Not

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

the ikhwan are competing with the tagamu3 all over the place, there is no real coalition they all failed in this test.

but I would vote for the kefaya elders, they somehow managed to keep kefaya a non democratic entity despite everyone trying to fix that tiny oversight.

2:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

or how about the shayfeencom croud who failed to be anywhere near a polling station on election day, made a half assed report and basically fizzled without the hype fizzling.

2:37 AM  
Blogger Ibn ad Dunya said...

Hi Alaa,

Nice having you here at fustat.

What does that mean for the future of Kefaya, and for you guys from the younger generation ?

3:24 AM  

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