Neomubarakismo: al-Sisi y la nueva cara del autoritarismo en Egipto

• Main Authors: Rafat Ghotme, Nadia García Sicard
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2016-01-01
• Series: Colombia Internacional
• Subjects: Egypt; authoritarianism (Thesaurus); Islamism; MubarakismNasserism (author’s keywords)
• Online Access: http://colombiainternacional.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/9250/index.php?id=9250

The aim of this article is to show how the authoritarianism was renewed in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. Through the reconstructions of actions of the principal political Egyptian actors, it will be demonstrated that the demands of democratization that arose in the “spring” of 2011 meant only a change in the personification of the authoritarianism, rather than a change of the institutionalized authoritarianism of the militaries. Furthermore, it was established that this structure has been legitimized by the currently President al-Sisi through restitution or “correction” of various practices of the Mubarak era, resorting to repressive measures, the reincorporation of old mubarakists figures and a more aggressive nationalist discourse. In this study, these practices are denominated neomubarakism.