Tayyar.

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Egypt

مصر מצרים

9 parties on file · 1 currently in government

Capital
Cairo
Population
113.0M
Independence
1922
Government
Presidential republic (de facto authoritarian under military backing)
Head of state
President
Head of government
Prime Minister
Electoral system
Mixed: presidential election + parliamentary proportional representation

Monarchy until 1952 Free Officers coup; military presidency from Nasser through Sisi with brief Brotherhood interregnum (Morsi 2012-2013). Mostaqbal Watan is the current ruling party.

Timeline · 7 events

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  • Speculative Other

    Periodic speculation about ElBaradei political return

    Periodic speculation in Egyptian diaspora media about a possible Mohamed ElBaradei political return when Sisi steps down. No formal announcement; the speculation tracks ongoing discussions about post-Sisi succession scenarios.

2023
  • Confirmed Election held December 18, 2023

    Egypt: Sisi wins a third term with 89.6% in a tightly managed election

    Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was re-elected to a third term in a vote his three official challengers conceded was uncompetitive before counting finished. The most-watched opposition candidate, Ahmed al-Tantawi, had withdrawn after a campaign of pressure on his organizers, multiple arrests of staff, and a Pegasus spyware infection on his phone. Sisi's win was less the story than the economic crisis it failed to address — the pound went on to halve against the dollar three months later under an IMF deal.

  • Confirmed Election held December 12, 2023

    Sisi re-elected with 89.6% vote

    Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was re-elected for a third term as President of Egypt on 2023-12-12 with 89.6% of the vote. Major opposition figures were either barred from running or imprisoned ahead of the vote.

2013
  • Confirmed Other August 14, 2013

    Rabaa massacre

    Egyptian security forces cleared the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Square sit-ins on 2013-08-14, killing at least 817 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in a single day. Human Rights Watch called it one of the worst single-day mass killings of demonstrators in modern history. Marked the consolidation of Sisi's power.

  • Confirmed Coalition collapsed July 3, 2013

    Morsi ousted, Brotherhood government ends

    Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed elected President Mohamed Morsi from power on 2013-07-03 after mass protests against the Brotherhood government, suspended the constitution, and arrested senior Brotherhood figures. The end of Egypt's post-Mubarak democratic experiment.

Show 2 earlier events (2011–2012)
2012
  • Confirmed Election held June 24, 2012

    Mohamed Morsi elected president

    Muslim Brotherhood–backed Morsi defeats Ahmed Shafiq with 51.7% in the second-round runoff — the first democratically elected civilian president in Egyptian history.

2011
  • Confirmed Leader changed February 11, 2011

    Hosni Mubarak resigns

    18 days into the Tahrir Square uprising, VP Omar Suleiman announces Mubarak's resignation; power transfers to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Ends 30 years of Mubarak presidency.

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Compass · Egypt

Country mean — Economic +1.5, Social +0.8

-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 2 parties 2 parties 2 parties secular-liberal centroid · 2 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ New Wafd Party (EG) · Economic +5.0, Social +3.0 EG New Wafd Party Free Egyptians Party (EG) · Economic +8.0, Social +5.5 EG Free Egyptians Party Nour Party (EG) · Economic +2.5, Social -9.0 EG Nour Party Mostaqbal Watan (EG) · in government · Economic +3.0, Social -4.0 EG Mostaqbal Watan Tagammu Party (EG) · Economic -7.0, Social +4.0 EG Tagammu Party Egyptian Social Democratic Party (EG) · Economic -2.5, Social +5.0 EG Egyptian Social Democratic Party

Ringed dots are parties currently in government. See the full regional compass · hand-coded estimates; methodology.

Current leadership · grouped by party

20 political figures across 5 groups. Coalition parties first, then opposition, then unaffiliated.

Mostaqbal Watan in government · 4 figures

Egyptian Social Democratic Party — · 1 figure

Freedom and Justice Party — · 3 figures

New Wafd Party — · 1 figure

Independents / unaffiliated 11 figures

Parties

Source documents · 25

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Briefs from Egypt

Hand-written political-science mini-papers involving Egypt parties. 3 briefs on file.

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Egypt [Country profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/EG
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Egypt." Country profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/EG.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-country-eg,
  title     = {{Egypt}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Country profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/EG},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.