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Mansour holds second national dialogue session over the roadmap
Published in Daily News Egypt on 22 - 12 - 2013

Over 80 public figures met with interim President Adly Mansour during the second presidency-sponsored national dialogue held over the roadmap.
The session is part of a series organised to discuss the political roadmap announced by General Commander of the Armed Forces Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on 3 July, following the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi.
Participants specifically discussed whether presidential elections should be held before parliamentary elections and the electoral system to be followed.
Khaled Dawoud, spokesman of Al-Dostour Party, said 75 attendees voted in favour of holding the presidential elections first, while 12 voted in favour of prioritising the parliamentary elections. Al-Dostour Party's spokesman voted for holding the parliamentary elections first, as per the roadmap.
Mansour called on the attendees to vote without taking into account that a certain individual would be running for the presidential elections. Dawoud said the call was made in reference to Al-Sisi. A number of popular campaigns have been established to call on the Al-Sisi to run in the coming presidential elections.
"Mansour pointed out that the said individual has not yet made up his mind on whether he will run for the elections," Dawoud said. "He called on them to put their personal preferences aside when voting on which elections to lead with."
Dawoud said that 23 of the attendees voted in favour of holding parliamentary elections using the individual candidates' electoral system, 53 voted in favour of using a mixed electoral system and 6 voted in favour of using electoral lists only. He added that the majority of those who supported a mixed electoral system wanted to elect one-third of the candidates within each district from an electoral list, while the other two thirds would be elected individually.
"Al-Dostour Party is in favour of using a mixed system where half the candidates within each district are elected from a list and the other half individually," Dawoud said.
"No political party would ever call for following an individual candidates' system," Dawoud said, warning that such a system would pave the way for Hosni Mubarak's dissolved-National Democratic Party and the Muslim Brotherhood to win the coming parliamentary elections. He added that several attendees were against his suggestion, under the context that Egyptians are used to the individual candidates system. "Keeping the old system with the old faces is definitely going to produce the old regime."
Dawoud called on Mansour to establish a supreme committee for national reconciliation, as per Al-Sisi's roadmap. Upon putting forward his demand, Dawoud said the majority of the attendees attacked him. He then called on Mansour to establish a fact-finding committee to look into different incidents of violence which occurred since Morsi's ouster in July.
"The president told me he had already ordered the establishment of such a committee yesterday," Dawoud said.
The meeting was attended by a number of political parties' chairmen including; the Egyptian Social Democratic Party Chairman Mohamed Abul Ghar, Al-Wafd Party Chairman El-Sayed El-Badawi, Al-Nour Party Chairman Younes Makhioun, and Al-Tayar Al-Shaaby Chairman Hamdeen Sabahy. Several journalists and television anchors also attended the meeting, alongside politicians, authors, and members of the 50-member Constituent Assembly which drafted amendments to the 2012 constitution.
The two contentious issues regarding the priority of the presidential elections and the electoral system were intended to be resolved by the Constituent Assembly. Yet the assembly failed to reach consensus over them. Both articles were amended in a manner which would leave the decision up to the legislature. The interim president currently has legislative authority.


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