Egypt – No longer semi-presidential

This is unlikely to come as news to anyone, but in Egypt President Mubarak has handed power to the military, which has dissolved the legislature and suspended the constitution.

I date the introduction of semi-presidentialism in Egypt to the 2007 constitutional amendment that made the government, formally at least, responsible to the legislature. The suspension of the constitution means that Egypt is no longer semi-presidential.

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