Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
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Intra-Party Quarrels in Egypt

July 8th, 2008 by Adam

Jeffery Fleishman at Babylon and Beyond discusses the squabbles and in-fighting within Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party. Recently, Gamal Mubarak, son and possible future successor of Egypt’s current President Hosni Mubarak, admitted the government had problems in order to illustrate that he and the party were not out of touch with a public bitter over poverty, rising food prices, and corruption. Fleishman also examines how the shift from nationalization to privatization has caused intra-party rifts between government officials and business interests.


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