SETA presents the analyses of SETA experts on Egypt in order to better understand the transformation process in Egypt which began on January 25, 2011 and the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi by the military coup on July 3, 2013.
Seizing power after 29 years and 120 days of Mubarak rule, the 5th Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is the first civilian leader and he successfully managed the process during which regional dynamics have been reshaped.
Egyptian regime believed that Arab uprisings in Cairo will end when Mubarak “was sacrificed.” Mubarak would leave and the established political order will be maintained through a partial power sharing.
When Freedom and Justice Party and al-Nour Party seized the overwhelming majority in the parliament, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces stayed calm. Egyptian regime didn’t take the parliament seriously. What mattered most was the presidency. Before presidential elections, Egyptian tutelary regime inexplicably abolished the constitutional commission by an administrative court decision. Then more radical decisions followed. The Parliament was abolished by a soft coup; the authorities of the president were restricted. In an answer to this soft coup, Morsi has recently issued a new constitutional declaration.
As a final step of the coup attempts by the military such as the abolishment of the constitutional commission and the Parliament, the restriction of the presidential powers of Morsi and the intervention in each and every appointment and economic decisions since January 25, 2011, the military seized the control in a coup on July 3, 2013.
SETA presents the analyses of SETA experts on Egypt in order to better understand the transformation process in Egypt which began on January 25, 2011 and the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi by the military coup on July 3, 2013.
