Moussa: National Salvation Front respects Morsy’s legitimacy
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Moussa: National Salvation Front respects Morsy’s legitimacy
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Amr Moussa, former Arab League chief, said Sunday that the National Salvation Front — the largest opposition coalition — respects the legitimacy of President Mohamed Morsy and does not seek to overthrow him.
But Moussa added that Popular Current movement founder Hamdeen Sabbahi is calling for earlier presidential elections.
“We do not talk about Morsy’s legitimacy, but rather about his credibility in dealing with the problems of the ordinary Egyptian citizen,” Moussa said. “We are against his policies, and just as he is legitimate, the opposition is too,” he said.
Sabbahi, meanwhile, denied that he called for early elections.
NSF spokesperson Ahmed al-Borai said the front is only against a single political faction monopolizing power.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
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While often the essential criterion of democracy and of a government is seen in its majority decision, the viability of the system depends much more decisively on the rights of political minorities being guaranteed.
Thus not only a change of the oligarchies is always possible, but the currently disadvantaged non-governing political group with its legitimate demands is well enough represented within the political system.
A government will certainly absorb the attractive ideas of the opposition and often include them into their political program to the chagrin of the opposition.
An important task of the governing party is not to push the opposition into hopeless apathy, but to concede an appropriate respected position to the to its opposition instead.
The viability of democracy depends not least on the ability of the political system to install and incorporate a responsible alternative leadership within this system.