The Los Angeles Times’s editorial board said Sunday that the election of Egypt’s coup commander Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to presidency will not bring about stability nor prosperity for the country due to Sisi’s repressive politics. Accordingly, the editorial urged the US government to use its leverage with Egypt to pressure Sisi to engage with opponents.
Moreover, the newspaper pointed out that Sisi would be “deluding himself” if he thought that he could wield absolute power the same way as his authoritarian predecessors. This is because the Arab Spring has “released a desire for political reform that can’t be permanently stifled.”
The editorial board opined that the latest counter-terrorism laws ratified by the coup regime “won’t make Egypt more secure in the long run if the government relentlessly punishes and isolates its critics.”
Source: MEMO
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