Anan can’t run and arrested.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:36 am
Former General and member of SCAF, Anan, has been arrested for “without first obtaining proper authorization from the military” for standing for the Presidency which is odd because what has the military got to do with a retired general and citizen standing for politics. Maybe everyone needs the military authorization to run. Could that be a bad thing?
A couple of dozen of his supporters have been arrested along with their families. I assume they will go to secret military courts with no lawyer and no appeal. Its an interesting question of how a military court can hear a charge that involves an offense against it. Still I'm sure the Egyptian military judges know about conflict of interest and integrity - albeit little about due process and right to legal representation.
He made a choice of Hisham Geneina as his running mate who was dismissed from his anti-corruption job, humiliated and charged by the current people after he said that corruption was out-of-control. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -sami-anan. Getting rid of him required a new law (I think it was just a Presidential Decree that the courts never rule illegal) because like many similar jobs in the world they were previously not subject to random firing.
That Geneina was correct and that insiders have their hands in the till, and on a Pharonic scale, seems clear in an article which has won the European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/arti ... ush-funds/ so Geneina as a running mate would be a real threat to scores of thousands of important people. (The article and hundreds of related articles are never printed in Egypt).
Anan’s candidature and his imprisonment combined with leaks to the western media from the top (including private conversations about sloshing around billions from the Saudi’s to ‘military purposes’) tend to indicate that there are divisions within the military and that these divisions might be about integrity issues. It is possible that these divisions exist at the most senior levels.
Meanwhile the Egyptian media present the arrest in an uncontroversial and matter of fact way. You wonder whether there is any free media left. I think I know the answer.
Given alternative candidates who have been 'dissuaded' or are in the courts on trumped up charges the outcome looks clear. You wonder how confident the current people are about their candidate that they have gone to such extreme measures to remove alternatives.
The voter turnout should be interesting - last time it was a pathetic result if you interpreted it as support/popularity .
A couple of dozen of his supporters have been arrested along with their families. I assume they will go to secret military courts with no lawyer and no appeal. Its an interesting question of how a military court can hear a charge that involves an offense against it. Still I'm sure the Egyptian military judges know about conflict of interest and integrity - albeit little about due process and right to legal representation.
He made a choice of Hisham Geneina as his running mate who was dismissed from his anti-corruption job, humiliated and charged by the current people after he said that corruption was out-of-control. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -sami-anan. Getting rid of him required a new law (I think it was just a Presidential Decree that the courts never rule illegal) because like many similar jobs in the world they were previously not subject to random firing.
That Geneina was correct and that insiders have their hands in the till, and on a Pharonic scale, seems clear in an article which has won the European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/arti ... ush-funds/ so Geneina as a running mate would be a real threat to scores of thousands of important people. (The article and hundreds of related articles are never printed in Egypt).
Anan’s candidature and his imprisonment combined with leaks to the western media from the top (including private conversations about sloshing around billions from the Saudi’s to ‘military purposes’) tend to indicate that there are divisions within the military and that these divisions might be about integrity issues. It is possible that these divisions exist at the most senior levels.
Meanwhile the Egyptian media present the arrest in an uncontroversial and matter of fact way. You wonder whether there is any free media left. I think I know the answer.
Given alternative candidates who have been 'dissuaded' or are in the courts on trumped up charges the outcome looks clear. You wonder how confident the current people are about their candidate that they have gone to such extreme measures to remove alternatives.
The voter turnout should be interesting - last time it was a pathetic result if you interpreted it as support/popularity .
