Did morsi have legitimacy? To decide that, we need to first define the word legitimacy before we can decide if he had it or not. Some define it as winning elections and only by winning elections. you get it and you do not lose it. it is independent of performance. Others say the ballot box is a first step on the path of legitimacy. Like admission to a university. It gets you in but to stay in, you have to continue to earn it year by year. Then, they differ on how you can continue to earn it? is it by being a great leader or just by not being a terrible leader? I agree that you cannot withdraw legitimacy from a president because he did not do exactly what he said he would do. this is obvious. but in all places in the world, the legitimacy can be withdrawn in extreme cases.. in canada for example, a negative vote on budget in parliament brings down the government and they have to go to elections (there prime minister is effectively the president). in the US, you have impeachment and it is not just about treason. In california you have recall. The extreme case of removing legitimacy is by a revolution. by definition, revolutions are when people rise against massive injustice, dictatorship, corruption or whatever they regard as bad. People do it when they try everything else and it fails. When you reach that boiling point, no one cares if this dictator was elected or imposed. the issue for the people is the sense of extreme injustice and inability to change it by other means; not whether or not the leader was elected. One must acknowledge that there were many attempts to let Morsi know that people are calling for serious change.. this went on from November till June.. 8 months.. in all ways. it did not work. not even when the support for tamarud by over 20 million became known. not even when the support for the army became known, not even when the army threatened intervention and then gave a second ultimatum. He could not even hear the screams. what else was left? the people revolted against an elected leader when they realized he is not hearing a word they are saying. back to legitimacy/ Morsi narrowly got it by the ballot box and then decided to simply throw it in the garbage when he made that ill-fated constitutional declaration putting himself above the law; the law that gave him the legitimacy in the first place. Any talk about legitimacy and ballot boxes is talk about law and respect for the law. how can he claim to be the president based on legitimacy argument when he chose to throw that legitimacy out? There is a long list of grievances against the rule of the MB in that one year but I believe the critical determine factor in Morsis downfall was his complete and utter disregard for the law. This disrespect was the common factor of his decisions during that year but was clearly demonstrated in that one simple declaration saying everything he says and does is above the law. if you disregard the law, how can you come and ask for it to be applied to you? whoever gave him that advice is the one that should be put on trial for all the pain that all egyptians, including decent members of MB who are in it as a good religious organization, not as a political party wanting power at all cost or as militia group destroying things if they do not get power. All Egyptians have paid for that incredibly criminal act of declaring Morsi a god on Earth. This fatwa was a fatwa from hell. it pushed the country on this path of pain and death. yes Morsi must be punished for having followed this horrific fatwa because he should have known better but whoever gave that Fatwa is the real criminal.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:52:23 +0000
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