With the upcoming parliamentary elections fear arises due to the instability of the state. ElBaradei a major figurehead in Egyptian Politics has urged Morsi to not go through with elections saying that it’ll bring chaos and military intervention back to Egypt. There is good reason for this though, in the past few weeks protestors have been gaining traction – the youth want instant change, but Egypt has been driven to the ground over the last 30 years. Everything that happens in Egypt is blamed on Morsi like a train crashing or the loss of profit in taxi drivers. Morsi has taken a job that is in such a bad state it makes Obamas job look easy.
Then there are movements like the black bloc which have gained a lot of traction in Egypt who take an aggressive approach. The problem is circular like stated above the damage has been done over 30 years, but the youth can’t wait that long. This is further exacerbated by the fact that over 30% of people under the age of 30 are unemployed, so you have over a million angry Egyptians that have nothing better to do then to protest. The Egyptian Government I think has responded in the worst kind of way in the past year with Military Curfew in certain provinces, and the blocking of YouTube for over a month. Anything that ties the new regime with the old arises fear, so these actions create a lot of disturbance.
It will be interesting to see what happens in the upcoming months because as they say in the Al Jazeera Blog, Egypt is a train that is headed for a cliff and they’re arguing who the conductor is. The youth may have gotten rid of Mubarak, but the problem is time, and Morsi is running out of it.
ElBaradei warning of parliamentary elections: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21566270
Al Jazeria (Did the Egypt’s youth movement backfire?) – Interesting watch http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201302062301-0022531
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