Back in 2005, when Mubarak was running for office for the first time in contested elections after 25 years in power, he made lofty campaign pledges that he would enact democratic reforms and repeal the decades-old emergency law. Not only has Mubarak overseen the extension of that law, which serves to severely curtail political expression in Egypt, he has overseen a period in which Egypt has started to move in reverse on the path to democracy.
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