Four out of ten Egyptians express negative views about the role of the nation’s ruling military.

The military leadership has been taking control of Egypt since former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February this year.

A University of Maryland survey of 750 people in six Egyptian cities, including Cairo, shows 43 percent of respondents believe that military rulers are going against what was achieved through the democratization movement early this year.

Twenty-one percent answered that the military leadership is committed to developing the achievements of the democratic protests further.

Fourteen percent said that military rulers appear to be indifferent to the issue.

Meanwhile, the university’s other survey on three-thousand Arabs shows that 80 percent of the respondents support the democratic uprisings in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.

Maryland conducted the survey in five Arab countries, including Egypt and Jordan, for nine days from October 22nd.