Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb said the Egyptian people are now free to choose their representatives like the case with the recent parliamentary elections and the forthcoming presidential elections, adding the people who can elect a president can as well sack him.

“We have no future fears about dictatorship and autocracy that have been the cause of our suffering for a long time,” said Tayīb during his meeting on Thursday (May 10) with Bernardino León, the European Union special representative for North Africa and the Middle East and an accompanying delegation headed by EU ambassador in Cairo James Moran. [Dīyā’ Abū al-Safā, al-Akhbār, May 11, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic