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Formal relationshipor influence

Informal relationshipor influence

Institutions

Parties andmovements

Egypt: political power map (July 2012)

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Interior

Foreign Affairs

Justice

Information

SCAF

The State

Bureaucracy

"Sovereign"

ministries

Cabinet run by

technocratic

Prime Minister

Other

ministries

Pro-SCAF / Anti-Brotherhood

secular parties (Wafd, Free

Egyptians, ex-NDP, etc.)

Secular democratic parties

(Social Democrats,

Socialists, etc.)

Judiciary

State

Armed Forces

(army, air

force, navy,

air defenses)

General

Intelligence

Service

Military

Intelligence

Muslim

BrotherhoodSalafists

Wasati

parties

Presidential

Chief of

Staff (Gen.

Abdel Momen

Fouda,

appointed by

SCAF)

President

Mohammed

Morsy

Presidential

aides

National

Defense

Council

Council of

Presidential Advisors

(to be appointed)

Vice-

presidents

Pro-Morsy / Anti

(e.g. April

Unaffiliated / r

both SCAF and

Anti-Morsy (e.

Maspero Coptic U

The Brotherhood's

influence over

President Morsy is

a key point of

contention

Secularists

expect President

Morsy to form a

national unity

government andinclude them in

his team

SCAF is likely to retain

indirect control over the

ministries of defense,

information, interior,

justice and foreign affairs

The relationship (or power-

sharing) with between the

presidency and the military

is the key unresolvedconstitutional and

institutional question of

post-Mubarak Egypt. SCAF's

Supplemental Constitutional

Declaration of June 17

leaves the presidency's

powers severely undermined

and grants the generals

legislative powers until a

new parliament is elected.

Wasati "Middle trend" Islamists such as

former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim

Aboul Fotouh and leaders of the Wasat or

Egyptian Current parties have had better

success in forging alliances with secularists

Weakened by

the 2011

uprising,

the once-

powerful

Ministry of

Interior has

fallen under

military and

GIS control

Judges are keen to reverse executive

control of the ministry of justice

and worry about Islamists'

intentions towards the judiciary

The Interior Ministry

is likely to be

headed by a police

general, leavingquestions of Security

Sector Reform outside

civilian control.

Egypt has two foreign

policies: one run bythe presidency,

another by the MFA,

SCAF and GIS.

Old and new parties, as well as someBrotherhood movements, have fou

common cause with old regime netwand the military against President Mo

Control of state television, radio

and newspapers appears likely to

remain in the deep state's hands,

providing a crucial propaganda tool

and making reform unlikely

Secular parties afraid of

Islamist dominance have

appealed to SCAF as a

"protector of the civil state"

100s of retired generals

have jobs in the senior

civil service

Islamist parties (all backed Morsy)

Revolutionary groups

The "Deep State"

The Presidency

Secular parties

Parliament

(dissolved)

Constituent

Assembly

(contested)State institutions

Major revolutionary groups such as April 6 backed

Morsy against Shafiq in the presidential election,

hoping to steer the Brotherhood away from SCAF and

assert the principle of civilian rule.

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