The Three Hundred Egyptian Intellectuals declaration to The Nation

Cairo

Inclusive reformation is the way to face American Zionist invasion and foreign intervention

Signatories of this Declaration, from different political, intellectual, cultural, unionist and social backgrounds, agreed to stand together to face two connected matters, each of them carrying the reason and being the result of the other.

The first matter is the immense challenges and risks that surround our Nation as a whole, by the invention and occupation of Iraq, the continuous aggressions against the Palestinian people and the different projects of reshaping the Arab map, which resulted in the Greater Middle East Project.

The second matter: the inclusive despotism which befallen in our life requires that we ask for an inclusive political and constitutional reformation; such demand for reformation should come from the people of this country, not by being imposed by others.

This reformation includes:
1. Ending power monopoly and allowing state authority renewal, staring with the President; this necessary to put an end to the severe and spread stagnation in each spot of the state;
2. Promoting the rule of law, legitimacy, the independence of the judiciary, respect for Court decisions and achieving equal opportunities for all citizens;
3. Ending wealth monopolies that beads to a spreading corruption, social injustice, unemployment and high cost of living;
4. Restoring Egypts regional role that was damaged with the signing of the Camp Davids treaty with the Zionists and their ally, the United States.

To get out this vicious crisis circle requires immediate starting of the reformation, to end the grapping of power by a group and put an end the state of emergency and all the exception laws imposed on the country since 23 years.

The immediate starting of a full constitutional reform should provide for the direct election of the president and his deputy by the people, for no longer than two terms; the reformation should also limit the absolute jurisdiction powers vested in the Head of state, achieve real distribution of powers, allow free formation of political parties, associations and newspapers, and remove the guardianship over syndicates and trade unions. It should give power to the High Court council and the state council to supervise elections to guarantee their free and fairness. They should perform in preparing electoral lists and announcing the results.

This is the only to build a free country that believes in democracy and progress, and to achieve the expected luxury for our Arab people in our beloved Egypt.