The Washington Post: Egypt has not learned from Hosni Mubarak's failure

The Washington Post said in its editorial today that Egypt had not learned from the failure of the late President Hosni Mubarak, and that the current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi devoted the model of the stagnant and oppressive regime that Mubarak pursued.

The newspaper said that Mubarak - who died yesterday Tuesday - had an opportunity to liberate and modernize his country more than any other Arab ruler of his generation, but he refused this, so his refusal was one of the reasons for the 2011 revolution, and a major cause of the repression that occurred in Egypt today.

She pointed out that the characteristic that marked the era of Mubarak - the former commander of the Egyptian Air Force, who had thrown the events after the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981 to the presidential seat - was the unwillingness to change, whether it comes to state affairs or his person.

She explained that Egypt had suffered from economic stagnation for decades under the rule of Mubarak, who relied on the semi-social economy and the Arab nationalist ideology formulated by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s, despite the population explosion that the country witnessed, and the global shift towards economic integration, which led to Egypt's delay .

Devoting a repressive regime
The Washington Post said that the Egyptian economy was not the only one who suffered due to Mubarak's weak appetite for change. On the political front, Mubarak rigged the elections and targeted peaceful opponents demanding democracy, who sent many of them to prison and were subjected to torture and ill-treatment. He also sought to inherit his son Gamal Kari The presidency, which sparked a revolt against him.

According to the newspaper, Mubarak's targeting of opposition forces was not limited to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, which allowed many of its members to reach the parliament dome, but rather targeted the secular democratic opposition that supports the West as well, which allowed him to place his supporters in the White House and Congress between two options: accepting his dictatorship, Or the Islamists take power.

The Washington Post saw that the democratic transformation after the Egyptian revolution faltered due to the clash between the army and the Islamists. Since the coup of the current President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi over the elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt has sunk into a regime that is more repressive than the Mubarak regime, and his era was marked by the killing of thousands of civilians outside the law, He also sent tens of thousands of politicians to prison.

The newspaper concluded that the American Presidents Donald Trump and the Egyptian Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi did not draw lessons from the failure of the late President Mubarak, but rather perpetuated the model of the stagnant regime of oppression that Mubarak pursued, because Egypt is still lagging behind the advanced countries, and the defenders of liberal reforms and freedom of expression are still being suppressed, Islamists remain the most powerful opposition force in the country.