. . COUNTRIES: EGYPT: Egypt's New Legitimacy . . Egypt's New LegitimacyEgypt's referendum results have set us on the path to rebuild our country on new democratic grounds
Tarek El-BishryThe Guardian Monday 21 March 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/ egypt-referendum-constitution-legitimacy-change
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/4kpys9l . .In January this year time caught up with Hosni Mubarak. For decades, all visible opposition in Egypt had been blocked. The country's political parties' activities had been curtailed. Professional federations had been disbanded. Labour unions were controlled by regime lackeys. Government departments and universities had their political security controlled by the police. As a result Mubarak's regime was incapable of addressing the challenges faced by the community. Perhaps inevitably, renewed popular forces emerged that swept him away.
.However, every regime has a legitimacy. An assault against the regime means an assault against the legitimacy on which it is based. This creates a need for a new legitimacy, responsive to the demands of the new system and its political and social relations. This is why the formulation of a new constitution following the demise of Egypt's old regime was a necessity.
.The revolutionary force that overthrew Mubarak was a popular movement. It did not have the organisational and institutional leadership to take power and replace the regime of the president, and so this fell to the army. In other words, political power was transferred to the supreme military council on the basis of revolutionary, not constitutional, legitimacy.
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