nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210415-101236-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210415s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210415-101236-0 doi eng 342 23 Ellaboudy, Ahmed Author aut When Emergency is Permanent, What Else Could be Done? A Year of Sanitary Crisis in Egypt Ellaboudy, Ahmed Verfassungsblog 2021-04-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Indeed, from the very outset, Egypt’s attitude concerning the management of the pandemic crisis was the adoption of the minimum possible actions, which does not harm the state economic plan, nor change the way the system functions. From a formalist point of view, Egypt has existed in a permanent state of emergency since 2017, and as a consequence, no specific legal response was adopted by the state which might alter the regular decision-making process or power arrangements between different branches. The desire of presenting an image to the public that the situation is under control was a crucial factor in Egypt's political, legal, and economic response to the COVID-19 crisis. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 Egypt Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/when-emergency-is-permanent-what-else-could-be-done/ raw object