Two weeks before the run-off election for Egypt's president, one of the candidates is making an overt play for the votes of Christians, women, and centrists, for a civil state. See the Reuters article in SwissInfo.
I've been wondering whether anyone would make this pitch and whether it would attract enough votes of those groups, while not driving away too many of the country's largely Muslim citizens. Whatever else he did wrong, Mubarak ran a civil state that didn't discriminate on the basis of religion. Nobody believes the Muslim Brotherhood is able, much less willing, to do that.
Unfortunately, the candidate making this pitch was a quasi-member of the Mubarak government. I'd hope one of his big pitches would be to revitalize the tourist industry which the current unrest has shut down.
