The ruling party is facing a difficult test these days, as it will have to decide whether emergency law should be extended, although expectations are that it be.
Still, it will be a difficult decision this time. For if it chooses to extend it, the party leaders will face adverse repercussions beyond their imagination, and if it abolishes it, it may risk losing its monopoly on power and its domination of the country’s wealth.
Actually, extending the state of emergency will cause problems for all political forces and ideological trends within the country, because the Egyptian people now expect these forces to take effective actions, and to put real pressure on the government, rather than just condemning it.
Last Wednesday, a number of opposition and independent MPs submitted a note to the Cairo Security Directorate, saying that all political forces intend to organize a march to parliament next Monday with a list of demands including an end to emergency law.
They requested that the police guard the route in order to avoid possible clashes, as Egyptian law permits peaceful marches and demonstrations.
Keeping the state of emergency would mean giving in to rigged parliamentary and presidential elections.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
