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Campaign promises
Mubarak’s campaign promises in his campaign kickoff event last night at Al Azhar Park:
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Mubarak’s campaign promises in his campaign kickoff event last night at Al Azhar Park:
-Constitutional amendments that enshrine the liberites of the citizen, reinvigorate political parties, develop the institutional framework of our policies and the decision making process, and place restrictions on executive authority. -Amendments to enhance parliament’s oversight, allowing it to hold the government accountable, empowering it to be involved in the budget process. -Reforms to guarantee fair representation of women in parliament. -Adopting an electoral system that guarantees the greatest chance for multi-party representation. -Revising the Judicial Authority Law to reinforce the judiciary’s independence. -Decentralize decision making, giving more authority to local government. -Legislation to guarantee all citizens the right to basic due process and a fair and speedy trial. -An anti-terror law to replace the emergency law. -Revise system of administrative detention to reinforce the rule of law. -Legislation that will guarantee citizens’ rights to the free flow of information. -Further enhance the performance of public newspapers. -Create over 4 million job opportunities in the next six years, through the largest investment program Egypt has ever witnessed. -Increase availability of micro financing. -Empower private sector to build 1000 factories in the next six years, and to provide 250,000 job opportunities. -Reclaim one million feddans of desert land, thus providing an additional 70,000 jobs. -Increase hotel capacity, creating an additional 200,000 jobs. -Extend health insurance coverage to every citizen. -3,500 new schools over next six years. -80,000 government subsidized new homes per year. -Provide squatter settlements water, electricity, sewage, and access to schools. -Establish private mass transportation companies to develop road networks in Upper and Lower Egypt. -Ease traffic in the capital by completing third metro line. -Raise wage of low-income civil servants by 100%. -Increase remaining civil servants’ wages by 75%. -Guaranteed job contracts, health insurance, and social security to those working in the informal sector. |
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