loool > The signs of anxiety over the turnout began to emerge even before the polls closed on Monday, the first day of voting. “People, come out so that you do not complain later,” Tarek Shebl, an election commissioner, pleaded in an interview on television, warning nonvoters that they would face heavy fines. Pro-military television talk show hosts — who dominate the airwaves — warned breathlessly that the low turnout would repudiate the ouster of Mr. Morsi and embarrass Mr. Sisi. “What are we going to say to the world?” a talk show host, Amr Adib, screamed in apparent despair during his Monday night broadcast. “We have to open the prison, reinstate Mohamed Morsi, and tell him, ‘Your Excellency, Mr. President Morsi, go ahead and rule.’
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:56:44 +0000