Michael Wahid Hanna’s crystal ball tells him the real struggle for Egypt’s fate will come after the presidential elections, when the regime will seek to amend the constitution to extend presidential terms and abolish term limits. “If the preservation of its republican character is not sufficient to stir Egypt from its current authoritarian resurgence, it could well be locked in the destabilizing familiar old compact in which only death, coup or uprising can produce a political transition,” he suggests in a piece for The Washington Post.

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