Leftist presidential hopeful Khaled Ali said on Wednesday that he would dismiss Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the military council, and bring the whole council to account for the crimes it has committed.
“There is no democracy under military rule,” he said.
“The military council has tarnished the image of the revolution and returned Egypt to a regime more repressive than that of Mubarak,” he said, adding that changing the law of the judiciary and dismissing the attorney general would bring out enough evidence to retry Mubarak and his regime before the courts.
He criticized Article 28, which does not allow challenging the decisions of the Presidential Elections Commission, and which allows campaigning only for three weeks. “This is ridiculous,” he said.
He also criticized Parliament for focusing on marginal issues and for being unable to improve the lives of the people.
He added that he is against all attempts of reconciliation with the businessmen who are in prison, and who have destroyed the economy and created extreme poverty, as he put it.
He said that he would appoint three vice presidents, including a woman and a Coptic Christian, and that 75 percent of his advisers would be from the younger generation.
He pledged to cancel the gas exports to Israel. “We must build a state of institutions that are based on social justice and a strong economy,” he said.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
