Cairo: Three candidates for presidency to collect one million signature to amend the constitution

Former Egyptian parliamentarian Muhammad Farid Hasanin, writer Nawal Sadawi and human rights activist Saad Eddine Ibrahim who had announced themselves as nominees for the Egyptian Presidency started yesterday a campaign to collect signatures demanding the parliament to amend the constitution so as to permit more than one candidate to compete for the post of president.

In a statement, Hasanin, al-Sadawai and Ibrahim said that the campaign aims to collect one million signatures in order to demand the parliament to "amend the constitution so as to permit more than one candidate to compete for the post of the President by direct and free elections as from the beginning of the Presidential elections for 2005."