Is Egypt’s Military Trying to Steal the Country’s Democratic Future?

When the military first assumed power in February, it promised to hand that power to a civilian government within six months. Now, it seems doubtful whether the military want to give up power at all, writes Shadi Hamid, Director of Research at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Center.

The military … cannot be trusted with something as important as Egypt’s fledgling democracy. Even if it had the country’s best interests at heart, the military council is unelected and therefore unaccountable to the very people it claims to serve.

What Egyptians need now is a strong signal that their country is moving forward and shedding its autocratic past.

Click here for Shadi Hamid’s full opinion piece.

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