Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Chairman of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), said that the army does not back a certain candidate for the presidency, pledging to "sail the nation through to safety, hand over power to an elected civil president and support drafting a constitution that is satisfactory to all parties".

"Days and history will reveal the efforts exerted by the armed forces in this current stage the nation is going through. Egypt will be for all Egyptians in accordance with the people's will," said Field Marshal Tantāwī on the sidelines of a tactical maneuver codenamed Badr 2 at the headquarters of the 3rd Field Army in Suez. [Dālyā 'Uthmān, al-Misrī al-Yawm, April 22, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic