“I will stick to a civil state. If I won the presidency, I would choose civil state proponents as prime minister and vice president,” ‘Alī told a gathering of the Egypt Copts Coalition to introduce his platform, reiterating rejection of any religious or ethnic discrimination.

He said Egypt needs to declare war on corruption, illiteracy and poverty, noting he already started to adopt the corruption file. [Shādyah Yūsuf, al-Ahrām, May 9, p. 4] Read original text in Arabic