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Amendments 'death certificate' for Egypt constitution
munaeem | 29 March, 2007 05:12
Egypt was "boiling on all sides" as people stayed away from polling booths, declining to vote for constitutional amendments proposed by President Hosni Mubarak.
Mubarak's amendments are aimed at further repressing political rights and freedoms in Egypt by banning non-religious parties and removing the judiciary from supervising elections.
These amendments, it opined, consolidate dictatorship, and stressed that Egypt's opposition was right to ask the people to boycott the referendum and hold protests against the government.
The amendments can be described as the "official death certificate of the Egyptian constitution" .
It looks the president's only concern now was to pave the way for his son, Gamal, to take power after him by eliminating the opposition, weakening its efforts in the National Assembly, and putting its leaders behind bars.
In my opinion "Egypt is quickly slipping towards chaos, and it would not be surprising if the boycott of the referendum is only the start of a protest movement that could lead to a popular revolution.
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