Another presidential hopeful, Hamdīn Sabbāhī, said if he becomes a president of Egypt, he is going to be a president for Muslims and Copts, who, he said, will be equal in all rights and duties.

“My slogan will be ‘With Justice and Amity, We’ll Build Egypt’ as I took justice from Islam and amity from Christianity. When I say that I will appoint a Copt as a vice president then it means that the rights of Copts will be guaranteed in all sectors of the state,” said Sabbāhī in an interview with al-Akhbār newspaper. [Mahmūd Kāmil, Ahmad Zakarīyā and Bahā’ al-Mahdī, al-Akhbār, April 19, p. 10-11] Read original text in Arabic