Monday, January 31, 2011

The irresistible decline of rais

On March 27, 2010, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt finally regained. Undergone surgery at the University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany, has kept away from his country for three weeks. Hospitalization necessitated by an official response to the gallbladder and removal of a polyp. During this forced removal, the Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, who was in charge of all its prerogatives, the Rais who had never resigned himself to appoint a vice-president, a position which had been guaranteed in the Egyptian Constitution, may be afraid to bring out a dolphin potential.

This March 27, Egyptian television showed the president advance in cautious steps, to meet with government officials came to welcome him at the airport in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, bordering the Red Sea where he spent weeks recovering further away from Cairo. From a man omnipresent in the minds of Egyptians for over three decades and whose portrait is displayed in many public buildings, such an absence can only create a diffuse shock.

Especially since it contrasts with the activism displayed by the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, a senior international official little known in his country, but that appeals to intellectuals, and who no longer conceals large political ambitions after a carefully orchestrated return, in February.

This combination revives the rumor mill Egyptian fate of this 82-year-Rais, who has chained continuously five terms, while a new presidential election is scheduled for fall 2011. The Rais, known as "Laughing Cow" ironic nickname mid-mid-loving, no longer the undisputed boss of the region in recent years.

Twice during the Israeli offensive against Lebanese Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 and during the assault by the same army against the Palestinian Hamas entrenched in Gaza, December 2008-January 2009, his silence earned him an outcry of "digital street" Arabic. With the support of ostensible Nicolas Sarkozy - with whom he shares a co ghostly Union for the Mediterranean since 2008 - and Barack Obama - who has chosen to pronounce his founding speech in Cairo to the attention of the Arab-Muslim - President Mubarak is always striving to play the impartial arbiters between Palestinians and Israelis (he appreciates the Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud).

His chief of intelligence, Omar Suleiman, is a tireless mediator between the warring brothers Palestinian Fatah and Hamas, but the role of Egypt, weakened by the unknown of the estate continues to shrink. The Egyptian president is now at Washington, 1 September 2010, with Mr. Obama, Mr.

Netanyahu, King of Jordan Abdullah II and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, on the occasion of the revival of direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. His son Gamal is the journey, which is interpreted as a form of informal induction, even if the latter, by virtue of its position within the National Democratic Party (NDP), has already been meeting in Washington of senior U.S.

officials. The witnesses present on 1 September, as the images portray, however, a rai still marked by its admission in the spring. Back in Cairo, he puts the finishing touches to lock elections. Under pressure from the United States, he had resigned himself to loosen his grip five years earlier, allowing the Muslim Brotherhood won eighty-eight seats.

It is then no question of such gifts. Waves of arrests, intimidation campaign: the results of the first round, which saw the elimination of all "brothers" who presented themselves as independent, convince the opposition to boycott the second. To the chagrin of the United States, who argue in muted for the reform and opening, the new Egyptian parliament revived the party.

A triumph of dark omen. A show of force, which ends in terrible confession of weakness. Gilles Paris Article published in the edition of 30.01.11

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