After the government of Egyptian President Mubarak was overthrown on February 11, 2011, Egypt is in turmoil again. The country held its first elections on Novemeber 28, 2011 and after more than a year of stability, Egyptians are again rioting and destroying property.
After the ousting of Mubarak, the constitution and Egyptian parliament were dissolved. After taking office, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi overturned this decision and called parliament back into session on July 8, 2012. It was shortly after this time that the unhappiness with Egyptian politicians began to emerge.
While the Egyptian election was not marked by violence and reports of fraud, young voters now say that they are not being represented and old lawmakers are in power. If democracy was supposed to stabilize Egypt, it did the opposite. Riots have returned and have been ongoing. These events prove that Egpyt has a lot ot learn about democracy.
Democracy is about government for the people and by the people. When citizens feel that they are not being properyl represented, they can use impeachment and vote again. In addition, peaceful options such as town hall meetings and petitions should always be explored before people escalate to violence.
Americans have picketed outside the White House for many issues including to demand the ousting of former Egyptian President Mubarak because that is part of the right to assemble, but destroying important landmarks and property does not help the democratic process in Egypt. Egyptians should learn to channel their anger in more lawful ways.
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- Sandra Remilien
- Sandra Remilien is an American. Sandra Remilien is a Christian Miami native who loves to write. She is currently unemployed because a jealous, illiterate Haitian witch named Jeaccinette Philogene has been doing witchcraft to monitor her so she can do witchcraft on every job that she applies to so they do not hire her. Jeaccinette did witchcraft to get the password to her blog and gave someone and Guylene and Luna, who did witchcraft on her, the password to her blog so they could add things, change what she wrote so words are misspelled and it does not make sense and so people do not know the truth about the witchcraft that she did because she is stupid. Sandra Remilien does not like Haitians because they do witchcraft. Jeaccinette is doing witchcraft to make people say Sandra Remilien is Haitian and was born in Haiti so she can do witchcraft to make Sandra Remilien uplift Haitians. Sandra received a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University in 2008 and a bachelors degree in print journalism from the University of Miami in 2006.
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