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"Mr President, there is no such thing as a good coup. Any military regime becomes self-serving because it does not have to look over its shoulder at the electorate. The generals who have run Egypt since 1952 have treated it as personal property, which explains that country’s present sorry situation. I am shocked to hear people in this Chamber, and other Western commentators, cheering on a military government because they did not happen to like the election result.
You know what? I did not particularly like it either, but that is democracy. Just as in Ukraine and, by the way, just as when we have referendums in the European Union, you cannot treat democracy purely as a means to an end. Sometimes people will vote in ways that you do not like. The maturity of a country can be judged from its ability to assimilate that process, move on and make its own corrective, without needing to be told what to do from outside."@en1
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