Meanwhile, human rights activists, intellectuals and preachers concurred that the presidential system is the best for Egypt at present.

In a symposium on Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution, organized by the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation (CIDT) at the al-Sa’īd association on Monday (May 14), the conferees warned against the monopoly by a certain group or party over power otherwise the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) experience will be repeated. [‘Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 15, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic