The campaign against Gamal Mubarak’s succession is distracting the Egyptian opposition from more important priorities, writes Amr Hamzawy, a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut.
Developing an electoral platform and vision for the country’s development, and pressuring the regime for political and economic reform would put Egyptian democrats and reformers in a stronger position to counter the regime’s hegemony, he believes.
With the Obama administration placing democracy promotion “low on its list of priorities” and cutting assistance to independent civil society actors, he writes, the opposition cannot expect the kind of external pressure that made a difference in the 2005 elections.
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