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...crisis including, significantly, regional politicians. He could call for new elections, or invite another leader to pull together a coalition. But he is more likely to ask Leterme to return, yet postpone major reforms until next June, when federal elections would be held, on the same date as European Parliament and regional elections...
...enough time to organize such a meeting, there's one surefire way Obama can meet Iraqis. At the main entrances to the Green Zone, there's almost always a long queue of folks waiting to get in, usually to visit a government office or a member of Parliament. Once they get past the elaborate security checks, they're usually made to wait on the lawns of the building that serves as Iraq's Parliament. It would be relatively easy for Obama to send a member of his entourage, accompanied by an Iraqi translator, to invite a random selection of these...
That has not stopped the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed, socially conservative Islamist party, from winning one-fifth of the seats in parliament with its members running as unaffiliated independents. Despite the legal roadblocks - Cairo decries the MB's history of terror - the party has proven popular at the grassroots level (its social organizations provide education and health services in the communities that the government does not reach). And so, when seats in what were presumably MB strongholds became vacant in 2005, the government found several legal reasons to postpone elections. Until last weekend...
...While individual Brothers have varying views on religious and social issues, the party as a whole limits the roles of women and non-Muslims (they cannot, for example, hold the office of President). It also wishes to create a council to "guarantee that legislation adopted by the president and parliament conform with Sharia" - that is, Islamic law. For Egypt's secular rulers, such views are problematic; many believe legalizing the Brotherhood as a party would validate its views, and that any of the MB's actions would be simply cosmetic. Heritage Foundation Middle East analyst James Phillips argues that accepting...
...shows no signs of giving in, and he does not seem ready to leave office any time soon. Having come to power as the result of the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadat, he seems resolved to avoid any descent into chaos - which he appears to believe is a parliament not effectively under his control...