Egypt quiet over Bush's proposal to monitor the elections
Egypt-USA, Politics, 5/12/2005

Egyptian officials abstained from commenting on the proposal made by the American President George W. Bush to that the Egyptian government accepts an international monitoring for the presidential elections due in September this year.

The observers consider that Bush had touched upon a sensitive side for the Egyptian government which had repeatedly rejected the idea of having international observers for the presidential elections, considering that as an unjustified intervention in the country's internal affairs.

The Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament, Ahmad Fatehi Srour, announced that imposition of an international monitoring on Egypt or against any other country is an unacceptable matter, but he did not rule out the existence of a sort of monitoring at the consent and supervision of the country.

Observers consider that the continued American pressures to monitor the elections are a difficult test for the Egyptian government since if such a monitoring is rejected, this will mean that the Egyptian elections do not meet international criterion.

However, accepting the monitoring might reveal practices the opposition always talked about in the elections in Egypt like putting falsified or dead people election cards, detention of supporters of opposition candidates and resorting to the police to intimidate people.

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