Morsi’s Unsustainable Autocracy
Khalil al-Anani examines how Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s personality, worldview and career in the Muslim Brotherhood have influenced his recent actions as president.
Is President Mohammed Morsi an autocrat or a theocrat?
He may be neither or both.
Judging the Egyptian president’s ruling style should not be based on his ideological or theological background, as some accounts have argued, but rather on his politics and personality.
Morsi’s decisions as president reveal a desperate need to prove himself as a “strong” president. So far he has only proven the opposite. The recent deadly clashes between pro- and anti-Morsi supporters recall the confrontation between Mubarak supporters and protesters at the beginning of the revolution. The only difference is that this happened only three months after Morsi took power, not three decades as it was the case with Hosni Mubarak.
