Egypt’s Arab Spring chooses who?

... leading Islamist parties: initially, the election commission rejected nominees from the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the Al-Nour Party, and later, only FJP managed to nominate a new candidate. This is despite the fact that at the last parliamentary elections, held at the end of 2011, Islamists won a landslide victory, taking nearly two-thirds of seats in the People’s Assembly of Egypt (the lower house of parliament). Moreover, the number of Ikhwans was almost twice the number of Salafists in the parliament (233 to 121). The FJP ...