Clearing the Path For Scion of Egypt

Clearing the Path For Scion of Egypt: "Last month, Gamal Mubarak rose in the hierarchy of the governing National Democratic Party, whose grass-roots organization underpins his father's rule. He was named one of three NDP deputy secretaries general, and 20 of his associates took other high-ranking posts in the party. Mubarak had served as head of the party's policies committee, which helped fashion economic reforms.
Mubarak and his backers displaced some, but not all, of the veteran NDP activists known collectively as the old guard. Political observers saw in the move a gradual shift toward putting the NDP at the service of the president's son.
'Who can deny this is anything but a vehicle for succession?' said Hala Mustafa, an analyst at the government-financed al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies."