The question which presidential candidate Copts will vote for may be answered through two perspectives: One viewing Egyptian Christian citizens as one voting bloc that can be directed in favor of a certain candidate and the other revolves around their vision of the coming president’s traits.

The first perspective does not exist on the ground now because the current political scene indicates that Christians’ votes are going in the direction of ‘Amr Mūsá, Ahmad Shafīq, Hamdīn Sabbāhī and ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh.

This, in turn, means that Copts do not have a single agreed-upon candidate as some try to propagate. The trends of Christian voters, moreover, are swinging between secular candidates and an Islamist candidate claimed to represent the moderate Islamist camp and who introduces himself as former member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The second perspective is that the main features of Egypt’s next president in the eyes of the Copts will definitely include secularist inclinations that would help achieve justice and equality among all Egyptian citizens regardless of the difference in religion, sex or social class. [Hānī Labīb, Veto, May 22, p. 15] Read text in Arabic