L'Egypte

POLICY MEMO SSUMMMARYY EGYPT’S UNSUSTAINABLE CRACKDOWN Anthony Dworkin and Hélène Michou Six months after the army deposed Egypt’s first freely elected president, the new authorities are keen to give As a referendum on the constitution approaches, Egyptian authorities are keen to give the the impression that the country is back on the path to impression that the country is back on track democracy. A new constitution has been drafted and will towards democracy. But the government’s be put to a referendum in mid-January. Parliamentary apparent effort to drive the Muslim Brotherhood and presidential elections are scheduled to follow within completely out of public life and the repression of the following six months. Egypt’s interim president, Adly alternative voices mean that a political solution to the country’s divisions remains far off. While Mansour, described the draft constitution as “a good start on there are uncertainties about the path that Egypt which to build the institutions of a democratic and modern will follow, these will play out within limits set by 1state”. Amr Moussa, chairman of the committee of 50 that the country’s powerful security forces.