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“I understand the Egyptian people and their suffering,” said the Freedom and Justice Party’s presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy in a press conference on Wednesday. He would serve Egyptians if he wins the presidency, he added.

“From now on, we will not allow carcinogenic goods into the country, nor will we accept contaminated water, living in cemeteries or the death of our children drowned at sea or burned in trains. We will move with the people towards a respectable future far from the ugly past,” Morsy said.

Morsy issued a document that includes 15 pledges that solve everyday problems of Egyptian citizens through the restoration of security and stability, controlling traffic, saving fuel, improving the quality of bread and solving the garbage problem.

Morsy said his presidential team would include deputies, assistants and advisers and that it would include all national forces, youth, women, Salafis and Copts, as well as patriotic former presidential candidates.

He also vowed to form a coalition government made up of various national forces and competent figures, and said that the choice of prime minister would be based on competence. Morsy also pledged that the Freedom and Justice Party would not represent the majority in the new government.

The remaining pledges include pension increases, tax cuts, agricultural loan forgiveness for farmers and the provision of employment opportunities.

Source: http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/mo ... -egyptians

From now on, we will not allow carcinogenic goods into the country

Looks like that's a ban on cigarettes/shisha and most foods then.

"If I am elected Egypt's president, I will serve our revolution
Egypt must make an unequivocal break with the old regime. As president, that's what I will deliver"

Morsi has written a piece in the Guardian today which you might find interesting:-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... revolution

Here are two quotes from Mursi/Morsi from The Independent. The commentary is also theirs. See what you make of them and whether he is a man of his word.

"My sons (who were born in 1980 and 1981) gained United States citizenship because they were born there. They did not know that fact until they were arrested [in Egypt last year]."

If Mursi's two sons took three decades to realise they held US nationality, how long might it take them to know their father is Egypt's president, should he win the elections?

"I'm pleased and honoured to head the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). The FJP and the Brotherhood never change their principles; the work mechanisms may just change over time."

That was an immediate "to-the-point" answer to ex-presidential candidate Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh, when the latter highlighted the fact that the Brotherhood had changed its political postures several times, having said they would only run for 35 per cent of parliamentary seats and eventually contesting 90 per cent, and having stated they would not field a presidential candidate and having done the opposite, with Mursi ending up that very man!

It seems to be, to me that the 'business men in Luxor want shafik, whilst the intellectuals want to give Morsi and Islam a chance, but there is I feel a leaning to the old regime
a-commin...whatever....
I just lurve, whomever's holding the kalashnikov. Politics ? a f******minefield...

Had a bit of a chuckle earlier today on the West bank - was speaking to a farm labourer and his wife - he will be voting for Shafiq as that is what his wife wants.