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In the name of God
Mohammed Ihsan Abd El Qudoos
That is my full name.
I am the Journalists' Syndicate Freedoms Committee Rapporteur [and member of the Muslim Brotherhood]
The consitutional declaration is split into two parts,
one part which is very bad, and another that could be accepted.
The negative part relates to the President's powers,
and how his position is protected by law, from the moment he took power.
The other thing is that the powers allow him to do anything, as long as the revolution is in danger.
This is very dangerous and unnaceptable.
Former president Anwar Al Sadat used this in 1981 to detain his enemies.
I didn't work against Mubarak for more than ten years,
so that another leader can come along with the same powers as Mubarak.
Not at all. This is the main issue, for us at least.
We will not allow for another Mubarak.
Not a Mohammed Morsi Mubarak.
This can't happen. Wasn't there a revolution?
Private courts won't retry people, officials, unless there's new evidence.
They can't try people who have already been tried.
Our revolution was unique in comparison to all other revolutions,
it stayed within the existing legal structure:
it refused private trials, exceptional powers and political tyranny.
So any bid for political tyranny is unnaceptable.
Peaceful demonstrations are important,
but we must be very careful of violence.
There are those who want to drag us into violence.
This is the most dangerous phase of the revolution.
Why? Because in the past the revolutionary block,
or those demanding change, were alone on the streets.
Now the situation is different.
There are the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist factions.
And one group on Tuesday plans to go protest in Tahrir Square,
and others in Abdeen Square. No.
They must force this man to find a solution in relation to the consitutional declaration.
Morsi made a big mistake the day he addressed the people from the Presidential palace.
If he was addressing the people he should have gone to state media,
to address the Egyptian people.
But if you depend on your supporters and the people of Tahrir Square depend on their supporters,
this means there is a civil war and the country will move in a terrible direction.
Now there is a power facing another power.
This is not to Egypt's benefit.
There is a third group, far from all of this.
There are two groups at the moment: the Islamists and the Liberals.
There is a third group: the silent majority.
They are the ones who are very angry with the whole revolution that hasn't benefited them.
This third group are the majority.
The revolution began with the aim of developing their lives, but this didn't happen.
The responsibility for this lies with the entire political class.
There should have been progress in these people's lives.
What happened to the minimum and maximum wage limits?
Where is the tangible change?
You know, if President Morsi had achieved these changes,
and then announced the constitutional declaration, people might have supported him.
People just don't feel like there's any improvement in their lives.