Egypt is Giving Me a Brain-ache.

Today (14/6/12) Egypt's Supreme Court ruled that the election of one third the lower house of Parliament had been unlawful and called for Parliament to be dissolved. Crucially though they have not actually dissolve Parliament instead leaving that decision to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces just two days before the Presidential run-off vote.

Obviously I haven't had a chance to examine the courts ruling in any sort of detail however what I think has happened is that either a Mubarak loyalist or a Muslim Brother* has infiltrated the Supreme Court and is using it in an attempt to make the military look bad so the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate wins the Presidential election.

I will try and look at the issue in more detail tomorrow although I was hoping to do a bit of work on Libya where there have also been exciting developments.


*It's hard to explain what exactly the Muslim Brotherhood are because they're just the Muslim Brotherhood. However rather then being an out and out political organisation they're more like the Freemasons or perhaps more accurately the Orange Order.