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...recent demonstrations are a sign of mounting domestic pressure for change in the political system. Some individuals, such as the seasoned pro-democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and outspoken feminist Nawal Saadawi have even sought to challenge Mubarak by nominating themselves as presidential candidates...
...Over the past few months, at Mubarak's recommendation, his ruling National Democratic Party has engaged in a public dialogue with leaders of the country's major political parties to discuss reform and democracy. The outcome lead to an acknowledgement by the NDP that while constitutional and democratic reform were urgent, the process needed more time. Party leaders argued that it was too late to change the constitution before September to allow for candidates to run against Mubarak, who has been in power since the assassination of his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, in October 1981. Even members of opposition groups...
Surprises are rare in Egyptian politics, where democracy is an affair carefully managed by the government, and President Hosni Mubarak's 24-year presidency has never been contested at the ballot box. That's why the announcement, Saturday, by the 76-year-old Mubarak that he wants the constitution amended to allow more than one candidate to run in September's presidential election registered as something of a political earthquake in Cairo. Rather than yet another presidential referendum in which his is the only name on the ballot, Mubarak is proposing a direct, competitive presidential election - the first in Egypt...
...announcement, say Egyptian political analysts, follows months of growing outspokenness from Egypt's political opposition and within civil society to allow others to run against Mubarak. It also comes against a backdrop of growing pressure from the U.S. for political reform and democratization in Egypt. Indeed, the announcement followed hard on the heels of a decision by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel a trip to Egypt, reportedly in response to the arrest last month of parliamentary opposition leader Ayman Nour - who had been pressing for the right of Egyptians to run for president when Mubarak seeks a fifth...
...increasingly assertive Egyptian movement for change and reform has since last December taken the word kefaya (meaning "enough") as its slogan, and organized sit-ins and demonstrations against a fifth term for Mubarak, and to denounce the principle of presidential inheritance, marking their opposition to the possibility that Mubarak be replaced by his younger son, Gamal. Just last week, some demonstrators even took the risk of shouting "down with Mubarak" in a heavily policed demonstration outside Cairo University...