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This article presents an analysis of the functioning of the Egyptian political system in the context of liberalization of the economic system of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The process of liberalization began in the 1970's, but accelerated in the late 1980's and the early 1990's. This was an effect of the pressure exerted by international financial institutions involved in the Egyptian economy which in the 1980 was in very poor condition. All this led to debt reduction as well as the reduction of state influence on various spheres of socio-economic life through which the Egyptian authoritarian regime could control the whole society. In order to secure its position and ensure the stability of the government, the authorities need to tighten repression against the increasingly radical opposition, and thus bring about what Eberhard Kienle called "deliberalisation", i.e. the economic liberalization of the Egyptian political system.