Egypt rally urges army chief to run for president

[smurfy]

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[url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/01/sisi-urged-run-egypt-presidency-201412117432770683.html[/url]
[quote]Thousands of supporters of Egypt's powerful army chief have rallied in Cairo, urging him to run for president.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the general who removed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi from power last year, was the focus of the crowd at Cairo Stadium on Tuesday, as supporters held banners calling on him to "complete your good deed" by running for the presidency.

"At the top of our priorities is to choose a nationalist leader," the former Interior Minister, Ahmed Gamal Eddin, told the demonstrators, some of whom held banners reading: "Egypt calls upon you."

Standing next to him on the tribune, Coptic Priest Bolous Awida described Sisi as "the soaring eagle" and led chants of "El-Sisi is my president". Further down, former grand Imam Ali Gomaa said: "The army, the police and Egypt order you to complete your good deed."[/quote]

[LoganIsAwesome]

Bet they are gonna revolt against him in 10-20 years if they elect him.

[NoDachi]

he's already rocking the dictator sunglasses

[Symwck]

Is that a vuvuzela?

[Sadim]

He looks suspiciously like a young Gadaffi from that angle in the poster.

[Angus725]

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If he's truly a great man, he'll put limits to his own power if he runs for president.

[Konstapeln]

[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;43623480]Bet they are gonna revolt against him in 10-20 years if they elect him.[/QUOTE]

No no no, that would be about 3 - 6 days after.

[Fahrenheit]

While I do consider this man to be a dictator, in some regards he hasn't committed any true atrocities and has showed some restraint (if you don't count censorship and the police state mentality).

I hope he is man enough to realize an authoritarian state never lasts and provides egypt at least a way out once he retires from power.

Dictatorships are never right, but once in awhile you get a man who understands his power and uses it towards the betterment of his nation, albeit at a price.