Blog Topic #9

On the right is a picture portraying the protests that are taking place in the capital of Egypt, Cairo. Just recently, as of February 11, Egypt had been ruled by Hosni Mubarak. The country was ruled autocratically, even though it was meant to be ruled under a multi-party semi-presidential system. This would mean that the power would be divided between the President and Prime Minister.

A lot of the reasons why protests had started in Egypt had to do with the protests in Tunisia, which is not too far West of Egypt. Others have brought up the beating death of Khaled Said who was killed by the police. However, the problems with Egypt are much bigger than one incident. Much of the issues are more focused on the political freedom. Egypt is ranked 138th of 167 countries on The Economist's Democracy index, which measures political freedom.

Now the country of Egypt has no head of government and is being controlled by the military. The protestors were able to accomplish what they wanted, no more Hosni Mubarak.