Today’s demonstration in Cairo promises to be important. Dubbed “correcting the path,” it aims to convince the army to schedule elections (most demonstrators might prefer after the constitution is written) and to revise the proposed electoral law, which favors the better organized National Democratic Party (Mubarak’s party) and the Muslim Brotherhood. These are concerns the more conservative Islamists do not share, so it will be interesting to see what turnout will be. Tuesday’s confrontation between police and football fans does not bode well. Nor do clashes outside the police academy where Hosni Mubarak is being tried.
Lower ranking officers having recanted their previous depositions to the effect that live ammunition was used on demonstrators, the prosecutors have called the top generals, including Supreme Council of the Armed Forces chair Tantawi. He is expected to appear in court Sunday.
I’ll be trying to join the demonstrators this afternoon and will report on the event. In the meanwhile, here is a take from Mohamed el Deeb, “Stand Up Egyptian”:
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