Post by peterd on Mar 23, 2013 3:21:44 GMT -8
The growing gulf between Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi and the secular opposition threatens to tear the country apart with unforeseeable consequences for Egypt's economy and political future. A commentary by Volker Perthes
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Two years after the Mubarak regime was toppled and nine months after the first democratic presidential elections in Egypt's history, an open battle is raging between President Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood on one side and a loose opposition coalition of anti-Islamist forces on the other.
At the same time, the young people who led the uprising against Mubarak have taken to the streets again. back then, they managed to bring down the old regime, paving the way for free elections. Yet their economic and social conditions have not improved since then; and it was others who won the elections.
While President Morsi walls himself in and places more and more Muslim Brothers in prominent positions, the opposition led by politicians such as Mohamed ElBaradei or the former secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Mussa, is concentrating on trying to oust the elected president and his government.
en.qantara.de/Courting-Disaster/20822c23071i1p523/index.html