Source: Italian Institute for International Political Studies
Author(s): Marina Ottaway
Original Link: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/authoritarian-governance-egypt-return-past-27405
Egypt’s brief dalliance with free elections after the 2011 uprising led, perversely, to the most authoritarian government since the 1970s. Under the presidencies of Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, the country had started a slow and uncertain transition from the full authoritarianism of the Nasser period to a halting semi-authoritarianism: it had reopened the system to party competition, although it continued to ban the organization with the largest popular support, namely the Muslim Brotherhood. It allowed some, though limited, freedom of the press and of speech.
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