can real democrasy be found in the arab world in the near future ?

Question

i think no

Answer 1

The government of Egypt is a republic and is considered to be a democracy.

Egypt has been a republic since 18 June 1953. President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak has been the President of the Republic since October 14, 1981, following the assassination of former-President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat. Mubarak is currently serving his fifth term in office. He is the leader of the ruling National Democratic Party. Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif was sworn in as Prime Minister on 9 July 2004, following the resignation of Dr. Atef Ebeid from his office.

Although power is ostensibly organized under a multi-party semi-presidential system, whereby the executive power is theoretically divided between the President and the Prime Minister, in practice it rests almost solely with the President who traditionally has been elected in single-candidate elections for more than fifty years. Egypt also holds regular multi-party parliamentary elections. The last presidential election, in which Mubarak won a fifth consecutive term, was held in September 2005 (see below).

In late-February 2005, President Mubarak announced in a surprise television broadcast that he had ordered the reform of the country's presidential election law, paving the way for multi-candidate polls in the upcoming presidential election. For the first time since the 1952 movement, the Egyptian people had an apparent chance to elect a leader from a list of various candidates. The President said his initiative came "out of my full conviction of the need to consolidate efforts for more freedom and democracy." However, the new law placed draconian restrictions on the filing for presidential candidacies, designed to prevent well-known candidates such as Ayman Nour from standing against Mubarak, and paved the road for his easy re-election victory.


The Egyptian Parliament.Concerns were once again expressed after the 2005 elections about government interference in the election process through fraud and vote-rigging. In addition, violence by pro-Mubarak supporters against opposition demonstrators and police brutality were evident during the elections. This poses major questions about the government's purported commitment to democracy.

As a result, most Egyptians are skeptical about the process of democratisation and the role of the elections. A very small proportion of those eligible to vote actually turned out for the 2005 elections. Newspapers, however, have exhibited an increasing degree of freedom in criticizing the president, and the results of the recent parliamentary elections, which saw Islamist parties such as the banned Muslim Brotherhood winning many seats, genuinely indicate that a change of some sorts is underway.

Answer 2

It will be found but not in the near future. Most of these countries did not come into existence until the early 1920's, previous to that they were part of the Ottoman empire ruled locally by tribal chiefs and warlords. A concept of real democracy is at present alien to them and only by educating the people as to its advantages can the process move forward.

Answer 3

no longer attainable. certainly no longer. this is a paradox that the freer and greater wealthy people grow to be, the greater privateness and autonomy they choose. A unified international state could bring about tyranny basically because it may bring about an more desirable international. If we colonize different megastar structures, then distances in area will separate us into communities as quickly as back. people have a bent to desire to apply each and every means needed to get removed from different people, or guard their territory. the line to hell is paved with good intentions. .

Answer 4

But there is real democracy! Palestine is democratic. Iran is democratic. etc...

The democratically elected stupid leaders... We Westerners are pretty hypocrite about it. We demand them to have democracy, but when they democratically elect someone we dislike, we introduce sanctions immediately.

Also, Islam requires democracy. The Koran says that the wisest men should be chosen to lead the community, and that is called democracy.

Answer 5

The word Islam means to submit. In a democracy you cannot have sharia law.I guess only islamic scholars could answer this question.

Answer 6

If a "real" democracy is a government that reflects the will of the majority of it's people absolutely.If you mean one that reflects our administrations will,not in our lifetime.

Answer 7

Yes, if US stops backing despot regimes of the region.

Answer 8

Nahhhh...