Hosni Mubarak, 82, was the Egyptian political leader of the longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali (XVIII century). His iron fist has allowed him to maintain 'stable' for 30 years a country of 80 million people. Now, after 17 days of anti-government protests, for him it's 'day of destiny'. Tip the scales in the exacerbation of economic inequalities, to have left millions of people live below the poverty line, allowing the abuse and torture by the security organs and have not worried about the growing dissent.
The state of emergency decreed by Mubarak at the time of his rise to power and still formally in effect, allowed him to control for a long time all forms of opposition, but has also exasperated the Egyptians. Came to power in October 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat (Oct.
6) in September 2005, at age 77, has run for the fifth consecutive presidential term. Six years ago, a victory for Mubarak, who leads a country with 40 per cent of people living on $ 2 or less per day, had appeared immediately obvious: he had won with 88 percent of the votes of the defeat 'lawyer Ayman Nour, who won a mere 7 percent of the vote in a consulting widely contested and was later arrested.
Those in 2005 were the first open presidential elections to multiple candidates, took the same Mubarak in February last year had started a process of political reforms with the approval of a major amendment to the Constitution. The next presidential elections were scheduled for next September.
Since 1978, Mubarak is also at the top of the National Democratic Party (PND), which in that year was appointed vice president and then president with the death of Sadat. The Pnd also triumphed in last November general election. However in the last years of his presidency, Mubarak has sometimes been criticized by the media as "free", as the independent newspapers, particularly in the management of the country and the widespread conviction that would pass the baton to his son Gamal in the next presidential.
The bleeding of consent for Saddam began in the '90s, during a period of severe economic crisis. And for days the elder Mubarak, who has always counted on the support of the Army, no longer seemed to frighten the Egyptians. Military, like all his predecessors since the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mubarak has been responsible for the modernization of the air forces of his country after the defeat of Egypt in the Six Day War (1967), when he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Air Force.
It also helps to plan the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the attack by Egypt and Syria to the Israeli forces stationed in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Then it was just Egypt, under President Sadat in 1979, at Camp David to break the isolation imposed by Arab countries to Israel, signing a peace agreement with the Jewish state official.
Mubarak has always boasted of being a supporter of the liberal economy, but in his 30 years in power failed to lift the economy of Egypt, which remains mostly undeveloped and suffocated from the scourge of youth unemployment. In foreign policy, Saddam, at the helm of a country considered the protagonist of the regional political scene, has never hidden his support for the United States, forging an alliance that has been used by the most extreme fringe of Islam to justify a long series anti-Western attacks.
Mubarak himself has survived at least six assassination attempts. 
The state of emergency decreed by Mubarak at the time of his rise to power and still formally in effect, allowed him to control for a long time all forms of opposition, but has also exasperated the Egyptians. Came to power in October 1981 after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat (Oct.
6) in September 2005, at age 77, has run for the fifth consecutive presidential term. Six years ago, a victory for Mubarak, who leads a country with 40 per cent of people living on $ 2 or less per day, had appeared immediately obvious: he had won with 88 percent of the votes of the defeat 'lawyer Ayman Nour, who won a mere 7 percent of the vote in a consulting widely contested and was later arrested.
Those in 2005 were the first open presidential elections to multiple candidates, took the same Mubarak in February last year had started a process of political reforms with the approval of a major amendment to the Constitution. The next presidential elections were scheduled for next September.
Since 1978, Mubarak is also at the top of the National Democratic Party (PND), which in that year was appointed vice president and then president with the death of Sadat. The Pnd also triumphed in last November general election. However in the last years of his presidency, Mubarak has sometimes been criticized by the media as "free", as the independent newspapers, particularly in the management of the country and the widespread conviction that would pass the baton to his son Gamal in the next presidential.
The bleeding of consent for Saddam began in the '90s, during a period of severe economic crisis. And for days the elder Mubarak, who has always counted on the support of the Army, no longer seemed to frighten the Egyptians. Military, like all his predecessors since the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mubarak has been responsible for the modernization of the air forces of his country after the defeat of Egypt in the Six Day War (1967), when he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Air Force.
It also helps to plan the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the attack by Egypt and Syria to the Israeli forces stationed in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Then it was just Egypt, under President Sadat in 1979, at Camp David to break the isolation imposed by Arab countries to Israel, signing a peace agreement with the Jewish state official.
Mubarak has always boasted of being a supporter of the liberal economy, but in his 30 years in power failed to lift the economy of Egypt, which remains mostly undeveloped and suffocated from the scourge of youth unemployment. In foreign policy, Saddam, at the helm of a country considered the protagonist of the regional political scene, has never hidden his support for the United States, forging an alliance that has been used by the most extreme fringe of Islam to justify a long series anti-Western attacks.
Mubarak himself has survived at least six assassination attempts.
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