Officials gathered in Cairo on Sunday as final preparations were made for Monday's opening session of Egypt's first freely elected Parliament in more than 60 years. The long-awaited new constitution after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak is on its way to reality. In fact, the most exciting reason for this is the consent between the two big powers dominating country at the moment, the Muslim Brotherhood and the military council. The accord includes:
1/ the creation of a presidential-parliamentary governmenthttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
2/ a legal system no more Islamic than the previous one
and 3/ broad guarantees of freedom of religion and expression.
Even though these are just the "signs" for future betterment and that the two players have gone back and forth between promises and disengagement, experts believe in what they are seeing. Moreover, 1,900 prisoners are scheduled to be released, among them is Maikel Nabil, a blogger who was jailed 10 months ago by the military court for critizing military leader. Furthermore, the leaders of the two powers have the intentions of seeking the French-style mix of presidential and parliamentary powers. It will be very interesting to see how these all will lay out.
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