Things went even worse than expected. Recent elections held in Egypt amidst ballot-rigging and political arrests were triumphantly won (in rather a suspicious manner) by President Mubarak’s party, which won fourth-fifths of the seats. Not even one representative of the Muslim Brotherhood was elected and turnout was extremely low. Mubarak has little to fear from external pressure seeing that many (France and Italy) describe him as the leader of a “moderate” Arab state. How long is this lie going to last?