Egyptian Chronicles: Articles No.76 and No.77 Part "2"

Back to the amendments to the Egyptian constitution,already yesterday the Parliament agreed on discussing the amendments in an expected move

back to the article of No.76 as I said it is the impossible article , it makes it hard for parties to join the presidential elections

Here is a summarization for the important points in the article

The party member must have the approval of a specific number of members in the Parliament,in the Shura council and the local councils ,it is about 250 members at least !!

I don't who will take that approval if we take in consideration that the majority is for the NDP !!!

The only parties that can join that race are the parties that have been established at least from 5 years before the elections and have been working for at least from 5 years also

Ok this part is fine ,not that bad if we take in consideration that the period of the Presidency in the Egyptian Constitution is 6 years

Those parties must have at least 5% from the membership of both the Assembly and the Shura council !!

There is something wrong with that "5" number ,seriously I doubt that any party got that percentage thanks to the cheating in the elections for the sake of the NDP !!

Can you please what kind of conditions are those ??!!

Already as I said before there is no bloody use for a multi-candidate elections as long as the Parties law didn't change

Anyway the presumed changes as I read it and I wrote before will make it even harder for independent people to join that rat race

Now we leave article No.76 to the following article No.77

If No.76 is dealing with the Presidential elections , No.77 will be dealing with the Presidential period , for how many years and for how many periods the president would be re-elected

The presidential period in Egypt is 6 years

well this may look long compared for example to the American presidential period which is only 4 years but we are not the only country which have that number of years ,France too got 6 years period

The presidential period is not the problem but in the other part concerning the re-elections

Guess what according to the article doesn't say for how long the president should be re-elected , he can be re-elected for infinite number of times !!

Yes it is not limited like any other respectable world , I won't say democratic

I believe that we are in the 5th period of Mubarak re-election , of course it is common in the Arab world , with countries like Syria ,Tunisia and former Iraq republic with the late Saddam Hussein

All the people in Egypt wanted to include that article in the amendment but of course the NDP and Mubarak don't want so because it limits their control with the rule

Mubarak and son want to rule to the last breathe of his life ,already he said that as long as he got pulse in his heart he would continue, by the way after that shocking speech in the parliament suddenly came the Farouk Hosni-Veil gate immediately ,some wise people said that the whole circus was just a game the regime wanted People to get busy in it to forget that "till death does apart " thing

Anyway so that article No.77 should be left alone from their point of view ,it is from sources of power and a specific limited number of re-election periods will limit their influence ,anyway as soon as the great amendments were announced all the opposition parties and political groups in Egypt called for including this article in the amendments if we do really want a political reform towards , of course the NDP refused to do so

Ironically Mubarak spoke today with the Middle East news agency chief in editor in an exclusive statement and as usual he said more those wise statements

Saying that lots of the constitutions in the "big or great" countries leaves the matter of the president continuity of his tasks to the people who say their word in this destiny issue as they choose him

I am sorry for being stupid ,but what does this man means "by big or great " countries??

The only big countries in my mind now are the United States where the president only got two times , France got three times and also Russia got two times only !! What big countries is he referring too ?? China ,the biggest country in the world also has a definite number of presidential periods defined in the constitution !!

Do you remember Mubarak when he advised Putin to stay another time regardless of the Russian constitution and the Russian newspapers attacked him ??

Another question pumped to my head after reading the great statement of a man who respect the people's will that much

How would the people say their word in that destiny issue ?? how would they say to the president "Enough is enough"??

The only way I am sorry that I know is through revolution

May be he wants a revolution

May be he wants people go and gather around El-Orba palace and say in one voice "we don't want you any more " !!

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