Efforts in Egypt to agree on reform agenda; opposition agree on program
Egypt, Politics, 5/10/2003

At a time when the son of the Egyptian President Gamal Mubarak, the secretary of policies in the ruling national party in Egypt, continues vast moves aiming at making contacts for the "agenda of reforms,"an agenda that started with the agenda to end the state security court system and extended to the creation of a higher council for human rights, and canceling the hard labor penalty.

To this effect, heads of the opposition parties in Egypt held a meeting during which they reviewed political conditions in Egypt, the economic crisis taking part in the country since a while as well as regional implications resulted from the war on Iraq and the change of Saddam Hussein's regime and the development of events in the Palestinian territories. By the end of their meeting they agreed to propose to the political leadership what they called "the national salvation program" in which they discussed an integrated vision for the requested political reforms during the coming phase.

The representatives of the opposition parties and forces in Egypt had discussed means of coordinating for the next phase and decided to prepare a united program for needed urgent political reforms, forming a committee of the representatives of these parties in order to discuss drawing the program, and thinking of founding a national front to introduce these reforms, and convince the public and organizations of the civil and government society of it, and all these acts to be crowned by a general massive conference to be attended by all Egyptian political forces.

The meeting included heads of the main opposition parties which are the al-Wafd, al-Tajamu', al-Naseri, and al-Amal ( work), as well as representatives for the Egyptian communists ( of no legal umbrella) and the banned Ikhwan al-Muslimeen (Muslim Brothers) groups in Egypt.

Since the eruption of war in Iraq, activities are being increased in Egypt, led by opposition parties and people's organizations with efforts concentrated on the need of having serious reforms in politics, increasing public freedoms, and deepening democracy, criticizing continued work in the 'emergency law,' and warning against what is called "foreign pressures expected on Egypt," demanding "a rapid reform before it is too late," according to Egyptian opposition sources.

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